I still think licensing vram is a big change and will stifle hardware innovation. When I upgrade to windows 7 and allocate more memory to each vm I will ultimately have to purchase more enterprise licenses. It is feasible that the cpu load will not be any more with win7 over xp, but the memory will be. We can already jam 2, 4 and even blade cpus, but that was never the bottleneck with esx. The bottleneck was waiting for innovation to happen and provide higher density memory modules. Albeit the hardware utilization is amazing with vmware, but I think that vmware should allot more than 64gb per cpu simply to showcase their amazing achievements in hardware utilization. This limit from an outsiders perspective would lead you to believe that is all esx can offer per cpu. With my limited experience I know each cpu can handle at least twice that. I know you can buy more licenses, but don't they want their product to look the best and these limits really lead me to believe that they think that's all it can handle.
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