It's all about the ratio.

VKernel is an advocate of running your hardware at high levels of capacity. I know that we would see record-breaking ratios of virtual machines to server hardware.

• A major worldwide financial services organization achieved a 12:1 consolidation ratio and increased its central processing unit utilization by 30 percent.
  
  
• An Indian petroleum refining and distribution company achieved a 17:1 consolidation ratio and expects to increase that to 30:1 with additional CPUs and RAM.
  
  
• One of Italy's largest banks improved its server utilization rates by 100 percent.
  
  
• A leading US faucet manufacturer saved $250,000 in hardware costs by reallocating existing units instead of purchasing new, achieving a 10:1 consolidation ratio.
  
  
• A South American energy company consolidated its servers by a 20:1 ratio.
  
  
• A federation of trade unions in Singapore consolidated its servers by 46:1, achieving a 26 percent savings.
  

Smallest is 10:1 and largest is 46:1.

It's all about the ratio.