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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by jalk on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @12:41PM (#39444256)
How is that different from how cores, mem and network bandwidth is allotted to tenants?
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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by baq on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @01:06PM (#39444566)
It isn't. You could ask for network-attached CPUs or RAM. You'd be the only one, though, so in practice only network-attached storage makes sense business-wise. It also makes sense if you need to provision larger-than-usual amounts like tens of TB - these are usually hard to come by in a single server, but quite mundane for storage appliances.
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Re:SSDs Have Become Fast, Except in the Cloud by pixl97 on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @12:49PM (#39444337)
Because a fair number of customers spin up another image when cores/mem/bandwidth run low. Dedicated storage breaks that paradigm.

Also, adding, if I am on an 8 core machine and need 16, network storage can be detached from host A and connected to host B. In dedicated storage it must be fully copied over first.

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