Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 18:13:12 -0500 From: Bill Vermillion <bill@bilver.wjv.com> To: jwgray@netbox.com Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: co-location model Message-ID: <20010311181311.A29281@wjv.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10103111328570.96200-100000@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net>; from jwgray@netbox.com on Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 01:32:22PM -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10103111328570.96200-100000@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net>
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On Sun, Mar 11, 2001 at 01:32:22PM -0800, Jeff Gray thus spoke: > In thinking about the co-location model of many machines, whether > 1U or bigger, one realizes that lots of space, lots of energy [I > am writing from California], lots of iron and other materials are > inefficiently consumed. Let alone late night trips to the server > farm. > > Instead of co-location with lots of physical servers if someone > were to setup a mainframe that provided, > -multiple OS configurations and alternatives > -centralized hardware management > -centralized security management on the mainframe > -flexible, reliable, scalable storage > then space, energy, raw materials and I suspect major costs could be > minimized. Late night trips to the server could be eliminated! > My two questions. > -Is this a reasonable long term model for ISPs and or server farms? > -Does anyone offer this today at the scale of rack size bites of > physical space? IBM is selling a solutions like this for Linux. Their example shows $1.2million for an S390 [some new ??-server name] running and with 2500 instances of Linux. It's a much smaller footprint than 2500 machines and surely a lot less of a hassle to wire up. They advertise at basically five 9s - 5 minutes downtime per year - with onsite service if needed. I beleiver I read that Sendmail, Inc. has one of these installed. > [I say mainframe only to emphasize extreme hardware and software > reliability]. That's how IBM is pushing their iron. Bill -- Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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