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Reality always beats the abstraction. After all, it's just somebody else's computer in somebody else's data center.
by doubled112 3y ago
Reality always beats the abstraction. After all, it's just somebody else's computer in somebody else's data center.
- bombcar 3y agoWhich can cause considerable "amusement" depending on the provider - one I won't name directly but is much more centered on actual renting racks than their (now) cloud offering - if you had a virtual machine older than a year or so, deleting and restoring it would get you on a newer "host" and you'd be faster for the same cost. Otherwise it'd stay on the same physical piece of hardware it was allocated to when new.
- doubled112 3y agoAmusing is a good description. "Hardware degradation detected, please turn it off and back on again" I could do a migration with zero downtime in VMware for a decade but they can't seamlessly move my VM to a machine that works in 2024? Great, thanks. Amusing.
- bombcar 3y agoI have always been incredibly saddened that apparently the cloud providers usually have nothing as advanced as old VMware was.
- wmf 3y agoCloud providers have live migration now but I guess they don't want to guarantee anything.
- bombcar 3y agoIt's better (and better still with other providers) but I naively thought that "add more RAM" or "add more disk" was something they would be able to do with a reboot at most. Nope, some require a full backup and restore.
- wmf 3y agoResizing VMs doesn't really fit the "cattle" thinking of public cloud, although IMO that was kind of a premature optimization. This would be a perfect use case for live migration.