 Smith6612Premium,MVM
join:2008-02-01
North Tonawanda, NY
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| Re-think the designs I really think that Datacenters for all intended purposes need to have their plans re-designed. Some of the most efficient designs out there still have much work that can be done to improve efficiency. Much of what was pointed out was due to unused computing power being used on hosts, and also spinning disks that are not in demand. There isn't much you can do about the spinning disks since they need high availability and SSDs are still expensive to the Gigabyte (but they have come down a ton!), but hardware is definitely scalable to "Back off" when power is not being used without any performance hit to the end user. No need to run a machine at full speed when it's needed for only 0.001% of the time.
Redundancy and latency is another story and I won't get into that. But, if a datacenter is wasting power intentionally, then that is just wrong. |
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| Virtualization can fix much of that. We reduced our server count significantly by virtualizing. |
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Smith6612Premium,MVM
join:2008-02-01
North Tonawanda, NY
kudos:22 Reviews:
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| Which is what many companies have been moving to. Far more efficient and eases up redundancy to use a solid virtualization platform than to run one host (or farm), one application. Inefficiencies however, still lay with virtualizing everything so in some high performance cases it's not an option. You also still have the idle host syndrome if your setup isn't making use of the hardware enough to maximize efficiency. |
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 Simba7I Void Warranties
join:2003-03-24
Billings, MT | With how much data that actually goes through a DC, very few servers should be "idle". |
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| said by Simba7:With how much data that actually goes through a DC, very few servers should be "idle".
it depends on the datacenter. We had a number of idle servers that are now VMs. |
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