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>We can afford to lose the last few minutes of work without anyone getting yelled at. Some modern virtualization technologies do help a lot in this regard. Runn
by breischl 6y ago
>We can afford to lose the last few minutes of work without anyone getting yelled at. Some modern virtualization technologies do help a lot in this regard. Running bare metal you need to be a little more careful.
How does virtualization help with data loss? I would expect that a VM can't have guarantees better than the underlying physical hardware provides.
- throwaway3699 6y agoIt sounds likely that it can. Software solutions to hardware problems have been a common pattern for years now.
- ithkuil 6y agoVMs can be migrated to other nodes, so for example you can mitigate failures that don't occur out of the blue
- robertlagrant 6y ago> How does virtualization help with data loss? I would expect that a VM can't have guarantees better than the underlying physical hardware provides. E.g. storage virtualisation.