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> All of the large private datacenters these days are non-virtualized bare metal on commodity hardware. This is so hilariously wrong I can only assume it's fr
by rodgerd 11y ago
> All of the large private datacenters these days are non-virtualized bare metal on commodity hardware.
This is so hilariously wrong I can only assume it's from a marketing brochure.
- awalton 11y agoIt basically is. It's almost exactly verbatim a statement made by Google when talking up their container game.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoDoesn't Google make up a large portion of the private datacenter space?
- rohansingh 11y agoJust one data point, but at Spotify we have almost all our stuff deployed in our data centers. ~10K machines, all bare metal, barely any virtualization, in a handful of sites. It's just cheaper and easier for us to have a lot of hardware racked and stacked and then spin it up as needed without having to worry about virtualization. Experience for our devs is pretty much the same whether they're provisioning a bare metal machine as it would be for a VM.
- purephase 11y agoOut of the SF bubble, the exact opposite is true. In Enterprise environments, racked servers running VMWare hosts still reigns supreme.