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> I don't really understand how having a larger minimum purchase unit (entire rack vs rack unit) is a USP. For some organizations cattle-like pizza boxes or ch
by throw0101a 3y ago
> I don't really understand how having a larger minimum purchase unit (entire rack vs rack unit) is a USP.
For some organizations cattle-like pizza boxes or chassis with blade systems are still not cattle-like enough. By making the management unit the entire rack you can reduce overhead (at least compared to a rack of individual servers, even if they are treated like cattle).
There are vendors that will drop ship entire (multiple) racks pre-wired and pre-configured for various scenarios (especially HPC): just provide power, (water) cooling, and a network uplink.