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Unless you're running at 100% load most of the time, it's atypical to run a server on bare metal these days. Much more flexible, maintainable, and cost-saving t
by TillE 3y ago
Unless you're running at 100% load most of the time, it's atypical to run a server on bare metal these days. Much more flexible, maintainable, and cost-saving to stick servers in a VM.
We sell a product that used to be delivered as a rack mountable server, but now I think nearly all our customers want a VM instead.
- sgarland 3y agoI worked for a SaaS that ran a hybrid infra, partially on metal. Each rack had N blade enclosures, which together made up a logical isolated unit, with each blade running something. New blades would get provisioned automatically, then Terraform and Puppet handled their configuration. I don’t remember utilization exactly, but I think most of the blades were reasonably committed. That said, when I left they were moving from a hybrid model to entire cloud, so apparently the cost:flexibility ratio wasn’t to peoples’ liking.