On Apr 12, 2014, at 10:03 PM, John R Pierce <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've retired all the older xeon "P4" class hardware from my development > lab as its increasingly unreliable as it gets older than 5 years old. > a huge 6000 watt chassis of 8 dual single core servers with 8gb max ram > each can *easily* be replaced with a single 1U or 2U server with dual 8 > core processors and 128gb ram and vmware or whatever. Dual 8 core? Try dual 10 core (40 virtual cores) with 384G RAM and up to 32T of disk space in 2U. And that's just the server-of-the-line Dell stuff. And every time the server lines get refreshed, the servers get more and more capable. ... and take longer to boot. Sigh. --Russell _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
