On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 14:21:09 +0200, "[email protected]" said:
> todays hardware is so powerful that imho it might make sense to split a CEC > into more "piece". For example the IBM S822L has up to 2x12 cores, 9 PCI3 > slots > ( 4×16 lans & 5×8 lan ). We look at it the other way around: Today's hardware is so powerful that you can build a cluster out of a stack of fairly low-end 1U servers (we have one cluster that's built out of Dell r630s). And it's more robust against hardware failures than a VM based solution - although the 822 seems to allow hot-swap of PCI cards, a dead socket or DIMM will still kill all the VMs when you go to replace it. If one 1U out of 4 goes down due to a bad DIMM (which has happened to us more often than a bad PCI card) you can just power it down and replace it....
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