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Rackable gets physical with the virtual

Charlie Cook

Quah indeed! 

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Slice, dice and into the crapper they go.;-)! When will they erver learn? When will they ever learn?

Chris Monteiro

SAN? 

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Interesting stuff. Anyone know if they're suitable for connecting to a san and using them disklessly? It would be nice to have a small form factor alternative to blades :)

Goat Jam

Just don't get it 

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The big deal with virtualisation is you can take a bunch of low usage servers and have them all share the same resource. This means that there is less chance of the hardware sitting there idle because chances are one of the servers will be doing something to keep the hardware busy and as a bonus that server has access to almost the entire computing capacity available.

Using a bunch of "tiny servers" doesn't provide this. If you have 10 such servers and only one is busy, then you have 9 idling servers and one server that has access to only 10% of the available resources.

What a crappy idea.