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Windows operating systems are just a gigantic bloated and underperforming mess. Server 2019 is no exception. At the company I work for IT ops deliver VMs as a
by grumpydba 8y ago
Windows operating systems are just a gigantic bloated and underperforming mess.
Server 2019 is no exception.
At the company I work for IT ops deliver VMs as a service. The windows ones have huge disk footprint and take at least 3 times as long to deliver. Moreover dsc is not featureful enough compared with ansible. So it's also a pain to script/automate for. The failure rate is higher.
And let's not forget the need to put antivirus on them.
Lots and lots of reasons to escape from that platform, I could go on for a while.
- pjmlp 8y agoUnless you are deploying Solaris into production, how are those kernels handling asynchronous loads. Still plain old select(), poll() and AIO?
- grumpydba 8y agoYes, and they are plenty fast. The API could be more elegant, but it works fine. Mysql for example uses io_submit. So do oracle, sybase. It's just a matter of developer comfort. They work around it for us. Deployment-wise, linux runs circles around windows.
- pjmlp 8y agoHaving worked in several Java/.NET shops not everyone on our IT would agree with that, specially how easy it is to manage cluster deployments with AD.