[CentOS] Old HP Xeon server blade with only SCSI HDD ports & CentOS

[Russell Miller]

On Apr 12, 2014, at 10:03 PM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote:

> I've retired all the older xeon "P4" class hardware from my development 
> lab as its increasingly unreliable as it gets older than 5 years old.   
> a huge 6000 watt chassis of 8 dual single core servers with 8gb max ram 
> each can *easily* be replaced with a single 1U or 2U server with dual 8 
> core processors and 128gb ram and vmware or whatever.


Dual 8 core?  Try dual 10 core (40 virtual cores) with 384G RAM and up to 32T of disk space in 2U.  And that's just the server-of-the-line Dell stuff.

And every time the server lines get refreshed, the servers get more and more capable.

... and take longer to boot.  Sigh.

--Russell