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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by erikbye on Monday November 02, 2020 @11:19PM (#24976241)
> How do you do failover if a server fails

Not sure if you do not know anything about typical ESXi and vSphere setups, but if a server fails, all virtual machines are automatically migrated to a healthy server. And of course, your HPE G10s are compute only, all storage is on the fiber channel connected SAN.

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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by tatersolid on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @09:06AM (#24989139)
You don’t get 17 server licenses for vSphere or a SAN for $55k as outlined above. More like $500k plus another $100k/year in maintenance.

You’re still paying a cloud provider, but in this case it’s VMware

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Re:Is a billion dollars worth of server lying on the ground? by Spivak on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @05:26PM (#24984735)
Yep! We have a KVM and Ceph based setup but it's basically the same as you describe.
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