I need to buy a server.
This machine will be used as a virtualization host, therefore it will have a lot of v-machines sitting there using its resources.

One of those v-machines is a SQL Server that provides for our ERP which is used, intensively, by about 30 people, one automatic instance of that same ERP and one external app that provides messaging capabalities to our ERP everytime something of importance happens.

On top of that, i want to run RDS to about 20 offsite users, AD, and probably some other services like SMS messaging, and setting up our own email service...

I'm heading to a box that runs 2 AMD Opteron 6100 series (8 cores/pp), 32GB, RAID controller (512MB) and 8 SFF (500GB) in RAID 10.

Is this hardware fit to run such a setup? Any ideas, clues, thoughts?
I'm a bit worried about AMD performance when executing SQL tasks/jobs/queries...

Thanks for your help.


Question: Word for someone who finds oil reservoirs
Answer: Petroleum geologist.


  A petroleum geologist is a earth scientist who works in the field of petroleum geology, which involves all aspects of oil discovery and production. Petroleum geologists are usually linked to the actual discovery of oil and the identification of possible oil deposits or leads. [Wikipedia]


Petrogeologist is used also but it is less common.