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Re:AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8... by tasubotadas on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @11:12AM (#22237219)
What makes it so good?
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Re:AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8... by JackRabbitSlim on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @11:17AM (#22237294)
If there is a show stopping bug I can throw VMWare under the bus.

If Xen has a show stopping bug I get to patch it myself.

Oh you mean technical reasons? None.

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Re:AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8... by yellowapple on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:22PM (#22242262)
You could also go with Triton, in which case if there's a show stopping bug you can throw Joyent under the bus.

Also, I'm pretty sure if there's a Xen bug you can throw Citrix under the bus (assuming you're paying them for enterprise support).

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Re:AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8... by chousuke on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @11:36AM (#22237575)
Well, you could buy RHEV and throw Red Hat under the bus. I don't know if there are enterprise-supported Xen distros.

Alternative exist, but VMWare has a lot of mindshare and their products are pretty good, so they're hard to beat.

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Re:AMD Threadripper 3990X 64-Core beats dual Xeon Platinum 8... by e12e on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @01:45PM (#22239375)
> I don't know if there are enterprise-supported Xen distros.

Didn't Citrix buy xen a while back (or some part of it)? They had something called xenapp, now apparently "Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (XenApp & XenDesktop)"?

Not really the same as "a supported xen distro" I guess.

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