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Originally Posted by CRussel
Amen. These days one server does the work of dozens. Even my "home" network (which would make a lot of SMBs jealous!) is down to a mere 4 actual servers. And two of those are laptops that have been beefed up with RAM and large SSDs. They make _great_ lab servers. Oh, and they come with their own UPS.  |
At another employer, we were a streaming video shop. Our preferred platform was a 1u Dell rackmount with dual quad core Xeon CPUs and 32GB RAM. Everything was under VMWare ESX, and server instances booted Centos and talked to a back end Isilon SAN array. (EMC acquired Isilon.) Spinning up a new VM was simple.
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As for my network? At the office, I'm proud of it. At home? It's a mess. And not likely to get much better. Sigh.
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My home network is quite simple. Usually, it's my desktop and SO's laptop. There are assortment of other things that
can join the party, including another laptop, a netbook, a notebook, an old PowerMac, and Win2003 and Solaris servers, plus a few tablets, but in practice they don't.
Too many OSes. Too little time.
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Dennis