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Bare in mind, this was a small startup in 2008 that claims to be the 2nd cloud in the world ( read on-demand iaas provider ). Flexiscale at the time was a sing
by ownagefool 3y ago
Bare in mind, this was a small startup in 2008 that claims to be the 2nd cloud in the world ( read on-demand iaas provider ).
Flexiscale at the time was a single region backed by a netapp. Each VM essentially had a thin-provisioned lun ( logical volume ), basically you copy on write the underlying OS image.
So when someone accidently deletes vol0, they take out a whopping 6TB of data, that takes a ~20TB to restore because you're rebuilding filesystems from safe mode ( thanks netapp support ). It's fairly monolithic in that sense.
I guess I was 23 at the time, but I'd written the v2 API, orchestrator & scheduling later. It was fairly naive, but filled the criteria of a cloud, i.e. elastic, on-demand, metered usage, despite using a SAN.