"How does that tie us to x86?" We don't use Xen, nor is that guaranteed to give us acceptable performance.
"closer to $70" Please justify that claim (that would be the cost of the CPU or hard disk alone). You haven't even given us a compelling reason to spend any money at all on this. On Sun, Dec 29, 2013 at 10:25 PM, James Salsman <[email protected]> wrote: > >... Wikimedia Labs uses x86 hardware virtualization (just one example) > > How does that tie us to x86? > > http://www.eweek.com/servers/arm-server-chips-get-xen-virtualization-support/ > > >... a conservative $200/server estimate > > I have been recommending hardware which costs closer to $70 per > "server" depending on storage and cache architecture options. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
