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How Many VMs Can I Run With Following Specs?

I tried to read the BP that VMware provides, but it reads like surround sound stereo installation instructions.  I don't need an exact number, just a good estimate, if possible.


10 HP Proliant DL360 G6 Servers
These each consist of:
o      CPU COURES: 8 CPUs x 2.533 GHz
o      PROCESSORS: Intel (R) Xeon (R) CPU
o      MEMORY: 64GB
o      HYPERTHREADING: Active
o      PROCESSOR SOCKETS: 2
o      CORES PER SOCKET: 4
o      LOGICAL PROCESSORS: 16
o      NICs: 2


We have a SAN that is broken into 4 datastores at 2TB each.

I'm running ESXi 5.0 U1 on  the servers.  The virtual environment is Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7.  There are 2 DC, AV server (Symantec), WSUS server, KMS.  Other software being utilized are Oracle, SQL, Sharepoint and MS Project.

I had done some basic calculations based on what I could make heads and tails of and I was approximating, based on those specifications, that I could probably do close to 200+ per host as they are not really running any search engines, etc and be safely within utilization parameters.  Yes, a couple of them are application/web servers, with most of them having 150 - 200GB disk drives and generally 4GB of RAM on each one..

Anyone wanna help me estimate?

THANK YOU IN ADVANCE!
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Thanks so much for the assistance!  I appreciate it! :-)