Ok. In my Utopia-world-of-perfect-things (thos who knows me knows that I often refer to it. ;) ) I build a flexible booking-system that makes the customer able to: * Schedule a system for x hours in a row where x could be 1 - 16 (or something like that) * be charged for those x hours by withdrawing x tokens from their account * start a session ad-hoc without pre-booking. * extend a current session as long as the current pod is available.
Of course that system must be able to intelligently select which pod to place each customer on, which might be a somwehat advanced algoritm. But since such a system would be able to take all bookings into account at each given time it would dedicate each session to a physical pod not until the session starts so that it could do proper planning to be effective. Lets call that system EIGRP for rack-rental, but ut would kick-ass. I know plenty of developers that would be able to implement such a system and I am sure that you do as well. In my opinion the first rackrental-company that offers this would be a winner (at least the winner of my money!). 4 hours sessions is only slightly better than 8 hour sessions. What if my companys conf-room-booking-system (O*tl**k) said "sorry, you cannot use that empty room ad-hoc, it can only be booked in advance and only for 8-hour slots. So you wanna have a short 1 hour meeting? You have too book 2pm-10pm." /Jimmy 2010/7/19 Marko Milivojevic <[email protected]> > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 19:25, Jimmy Larsson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why is it unrealistic? > > For the very least of reasons, that would lead to having separate > device pools, of which one could be overused, while other one is > unused. Migrating and managing device pools may be an issue and > additional cost. > > Think of load sharing here... We'd need EIGRP for vRack sessions... :-) > > -- > Marko Milivojevic - CCIE #18427 > Senior Technical Instructor - IPexpert > > YES! We include 400 hours of REAL rack > time with our Blended Learning Solution! > > Mailto: [email protected] > Telephone: +1.810.326.1444 > Fax: +1.810.454.0130 > Web: http://www.ipexpert.com/ > -- ------- Jimmy Larsson Ryavagen 173 s-26030 Vallakra Sweden http://blogg.kvistofta.nu -------
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