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requesting quota: poking the SRE or sysadmin to troll up and down the aisles of the colo datacenter sometime this week to find a QEMU hypervisor thats underprov

• andrewstuart 4y ago
  On AWS the default quota for GPU instances is ZERO. Recently I had to do some performance testing. In the past I would have quickly started 5 or 6 instances of different types, run my performance tests, shut them down and be done within 2 hours. Since AWS introduced zero quota GPU instances, I had to request quota for one specific GPU instance type in one region and then waited 24 hours till it was “approved”. At that point I completely gave up on AWS as being a viable part of any GPU architecture. It gets no less scalable or elastic than that. I literally could have gone to the shop and bought a fleet of machines and built them at home in the time it took AWS to approve a quota of one GPU instance in one region.
  • glial 4y ago
    That's bitten me too. So annoying.
• rejectfinite 4y ago
  we have vcenter these days...
  • mardifoufs 4y ago
    But then you'd be back to paying pretty much cloud-like costs for your infra. The vmware suite (and similar tools) pricing is often not taken into account when comparing on-premise to cloud, which I find pretty ironic considering how much we talk about the hidden costs of the cloud. And the (crazy high) costs are usually tied to the numbers of cores/sockets you run, so not necessarily cheaper to scale.