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Subject: Blade based systems
From: colet at code-energy.com (Cole Tuininga)
Date: 14 Jan 2003 16:13:22 -0500
In-reply-to: <20030114161031.1bded0b6.gaf@blu.org>
References: <1042574855.32363.14.camel@bobthesnake> <20030114161031.1bded0b6.gaf@blu.org>

On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 16:10, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Why so many servers?
> Last meeting the IBM guys presented VMware ESX which can reduce the
> number of physical servers. There is certainly some pros regarding
> multiple physical servers, but they presented a pretty good argument
> toward using VMware such that you have multiple virtual servers. I would
> still go for multiple physical boxes for redundancy. 

Redundancy and distribution of resources (CPU power, data lookup, etc).

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