10 Jan
2014
10 Jan
'14
3:36 p.m.
Hello Ryan,
Am 10.1.2014 15:28, schrieb Ryan Wagoner:
I do have a few x86 machines I am not ready to retire yet.
Have you considered converting these machines over to VMs. At one client I purchased one new server and migrated 10 legacy servers over to VMware ESXi. When I did the math the power savings covered the server in 2 years.
Glad to hear that this was a viable solution and worked out well for you.
Dan was describing however 32bit embedded machines used as routers. I have similar use cases in mind where virtualizing is not the right solution and a native i686 build is needed.
Considering the numbers Karanbir gave which amounted to about 30% of the users hitting the i686 tree
cheers, andreas