3 ms·

what does this accomplish that buying some open compute platform based x86-64 servers in whole-rack quantity does not? Or a bunch of the the 4-servers-in-a-sin

• panick21_ 4y ago
  This company was created because somebody that actually built a large could with Dell/Supermicro suffered years and years of pain. If you do as you suggest you will have to do a whole lot more, at the minimum you need to set-up (and pay) VMWare. Then you will need to figure out how you do automated firmware upgrades, low level monitoring and if security is a concern you likely want to configure secure booting with attestation and things like that. Consider how much work it is to do what you suggest, vs buying this rack. And then consider how good (and repeatable) the end result is. That is at least the theory, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZA9n3e5pc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvZA9n3e5pc
  • walrus01 4y ago
    If you think the only solution to large scale virtualization on top of x86-64 bare metal is to pay vmware... yikes.
    • panick21_ 4y ago
      Its not the only solution but its commercially by far the most successful one. Even if you use something else its still a whole lot of work.