The recent announcement from AMD of their 16-core Opteron 6200 CPU and indeed Intel with their 10-core Xeon E7 indicates a resurgence of the scale up mentality. Indeed the virtualization bandwagon is partially responsible for fueling this rise.
While on the one hand we have every virtualization vendor touting server consolidation and datacenter efficiency using simple scale-out models based on x86 technology, it is also apparent that to get full efficiency, the density of virtual machines to physical hosts (VM:hypervisor host) needs to increase.
Pack in licensing and transformation costs, and it becomes increasingly difficult to create business cases that really make sense for an organization to invest in new hardware to take the best out of virtualization and ultimately the cloud - unless that very high density can be achieved.......
Read entire blog at Time to Consider Scale Up in Virtualized Environments?
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About jaspal.dhalliwal
A senior consultant in the IT industry for over two decades. Having worked in fields as diverse as large scale infrastructure architecture & design to IT Strategy formulation provides me with a deep insight into the evolving role of IT and its relationship to the business.
Passionate about virualization and its effect on how business strategy is formulated and enhanced.
Currently at the EMC Consulting Cloud & Virtual Datacenter practice, focusing on transforming organisational IT by bringing the Cloud business value proposition to bear upon the challenges of IT being a business partner and enabler.