I've been looking at getting a new server to serve as a virtual host for a migration to vSphere Essentials. I'm debating whether I should go with the R510 or the new 12G R720. I figure I can get them around the same price with the two big differences being: R510, I would go with dual X5650s and 6 15k SAS drives. R720, I'd be looking at dual E5-2630s and 6 10k SAS drives. Decisions, decisions.
Both give me some room for expansion with the drives if I need more disk performance. I think the R720 has more room to expand RAM. I'm not really sure how the E5-2630 procs stack up to the X5650s. I've tried search for benchmarks, but have only found reviews for the much higher end E5 Xeons which are a little out of my price league.
Server will start out hosting only 4 or 5 VMs, including a SQL server, RDS server, and web server. The specs are a little overkill for the workload now, but I want room to breath if I add more VMs down the road.
Any thoughts? Anyone using the new 12G servers from Dell? Any comparision between the procs in question that you'd like to share?
Thanks!