Re:Xen Project in peril as colo provider housing test platfo...
by prmoustache on Thursday July 11, 2024 @04:25AM
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> There's LOTS of stuff that can go wrong in a DC move.
That can doesn't mean that will.
I am talking from experience, having worked on several moves that included some 15y old machines at the time that had some stupidly long uptimes and on different architectures: x86, sparc, amd64, powerpc. Stuff being pretty much more amd64 arch centric these days, especially in the virtualization world, I believe it should be easier to have a few spares.
That can doesn't mean that will.
I am talking from experience, having worked on several moves that included some 15y old machines at the time that had some stupidly long uptimes and on different architectures: x86, sparc, amd64, powerpc. Stuff being pretty much more amd64 arch centric these days, especially in the virtualization world, I believe it should be easier to have a few spares.