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jayhawker, what is your expected target hits of this web server? Having 18GB mem for just web/db serving is beyond overkill. My Apache/PHP/Postgresql running on an IBM X3650 (dual quad core) with 4GB mem, serving an image intensive website rarely use more than 700MB of memory... Most of the time it's idling with mem usage ~300MB.
As for VMM, VMware ESXi 4 is good, or PROXMOX Linux, both are free...
You need to understand this: High throughput servers are usually storage bottlenecked, but to use RAID 0 in server environment is rather "crazy", since it can fail - you don't want a server to fail (read again the emphasis of word "can"). Use either RAID 10/5/6, never use RAID 0 for ANYTHING except test servers where data is not important. In my setup, I run my X3650 accompanied by a SAN (self built), I offload the database tablespace and logs to the SAN.
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