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Don't know why Liu thought AWS would use blade servers. 1U commodity "pizza box" servers make the most sense by far. In-fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon
by nodesocket 15y ago
Don't know why Liu thought AWS would use blade servers. 1U commodity "pizza box" servers make the most sense by far. In-fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon was making their own servers (see Google http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html)
- mrb 15y agoI agree. I don't know why Liu made that assumption. Most large scale data center operators agree that blades are not a good solution: 1. Not cost effective because they don't benefit from the economy of scale of commodity hardware like pizza box servers. 2. More expensive to operate as they often require redesigning/reinforcing cooling as they concentrate too much power in too little space. 3. The space-saving advantage of blades doesn't address the root of the problem: any data center architect worth his salt will design a data center to be power-constrained, not space-constrained. Liu should have read his source more extensively, James Hamilton, VP at Amazon Web Services, who has criticized blades for these exact reasons: http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/09/11/WhyBladeServersArentTheAnswerToAllQuestions.aspx http://perspectives.mvdirona.com/2008/09/11/WhyBladeServersA...