E-Business on HP Blades

We are just starting our release 12 upgrade. Our environment constist of web/forms on a W2003 server, and "everything else" on a HP Unix RP5470 server.
We are looking at evolving our platform to HP Itanium. We are looking at the c7000 enclosure and blades, with virtualization.
Does anybody run the E-Business suite on HP Blades with server virtualization? I'm looking for your feedback and experiences with it.
Logically, one would think it should work fine, provided an adequate amount of cpu and memory is allocated to Financials.
Thanks,
Colin Jensen

Colin,
We do not have such a configuration/implementation, but I believe the following links/notes should be helpful in answering your question.
Note: 465915.1 - Using Oracle VM with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i or Release 12
https://metalink2.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=465915.1
Note: 464754.1 - Certified Software on Oracle VM
https://metalink2.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_database_id=NOT&p_id=464754.1
Oracle Enterprise Linux + HP Blade + ebs r12 ... ?
Re: Oracle Enterprise Linux + HP Blade + ebs r12 ... ?
Oracle E-Business Suite Standard Benchmark
http://www.oracle.com/apps_benchmark/html/results.html
ProLiant blade servers benchmarks
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/blades/benchmarks/index.html

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