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> even normal Dell/HP/Supermicro stuff is a PITA to run at datacenter scale not if you know what you are doing.
by moonbug 6y ago
> even normal Dell/HP/Supermicro stuff is a PITA to run at datacenter scale
not if you know what you are doing.
- insaneirish 6y agoLOL. Yes it is a pain. All these incumbent vendors have atrocious tools, management interfaces, and dealing with firmware is basically the same as 1990.
- moonbug 6y agoand in your estimation, 30 years (actually closer to 20) isn't enough time to get good at a thing?
- spamizbad 6y ago“Knowing what you are doing” — yes, and what they are doing is throwing more labor, more machines and more electricity at the problem than either Google or Facebook ever would. Major cloud providers got off “commodity enterprise” over a decade ago. There’s a reason for that.... the stuff is just bad.