http://blog.egenera.com/2008/10/the-disappearing-edge/ Covering Data Center Availability, Responsiveness and Converged Infrastructure Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:16:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://blog.egenera.com/2008/10/the-disappearing-edge/#comment-41 Doug Wed, 08 Oct 2008 23:17:44 +0000 http://blog.egenera.com/?p=93#comment-41 Interesting thoughts. We have found that this is actually quite true and painfully so. We had a 18-1 ratio on VMware and since it was not "critical" servers running on the servers we did not plan for HA or DR. Well when one of the servers crashed we found that 18 "non critical" servers can really hurt more than any one of the guest servers failing. Needless to say we have changed our line of thinking. Interesting thoughts. We have found that this is actually quite true and painfully so. We had a 18-1 ratio on VMware and since it was not “critical” servers running on the servers we did not plan for HA or DR. Well when one of the servers crashed we found that 18 “non critical” servers can really hurt more than any one of the guest servers failing. Needless to say we have changed our line of thinking.

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