[ale] Server boot speed (wuz: eth numbering range)

[Jim Kinney]

Yes. VMs do boot faster than real iron. But that actually make it worse.
Now I have 40-80 machines stuck waiting for the real iron to boot. Not all
vm stacks are large enough to support migrating all units away from a host
that needs rebooting. And since the hardware is "free" for a vm, vms
multiply faster than rabbits in a predator-free field surrounded by
vegetable farms.

I've been asked to provide a VM with 8 3GHz cores,100GB ram and 40TB
storage to start with. I replied "what brand? Dell or Supermicro?".

On Feb 14, 2017 8:12 AM, "leam hall" <leamhall at gmail.com> wrote:

> Isn't the move to VMs and containers resolving some of the hardware boot
> time issues? In theory, if you have a multi-hardware-server layer your VMs
> and containers can be moved around while a hardware host boots. I'm used to
> 10-15 minute Oracle boots that now take a couple minutes on VMs.
>
> Leam
> --
> Mind on a Mission <http://leamhall.blogspot.com/>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.ale.org/pipermail/ale/attachments/20170214/71adb6dc/attachment.html>