great big gobs of RAM and piles of cores to boot

[Marc Nozell (marc@nozell.com)]

Have you seen http://www.hp.com/go/communitylinux ?
-marc



On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Alan Johnson <alan at datdec.com> wrote:

> I'm spec-ing some blades for virtualization of our production systems and I
> just want to check with the masses (that's you all) about any known issues
> with Linux, Xen, or Ubuntu Hardy Server when it comes to up to 24 cores and
> as much as 256GB of RAM on the host.  These are HP C-class blades, BL685s
> and BL465s to be exact.
>
> I have no reason to think I will have any issues, but I'm just paranoid
> about spending this much of my employer's money.   I've have plenty of
> experience with these technologies on various lesser boxes and have no
> issues, but without having actually installed this stuff myself on machines
> of quite this scale... =)
>
> Sorry to waste all your time with my wussiness.  I appreciate any advise
> and will happily accept any abuse off-list. ;-p
>
> [For you Caddy Shack fans out there, I rearranged the words in the subject
> to match the rhythm of "great big gobs of greasy grimy golfer guts".]
>
> --
> Alan Johnson
> alan at datdec.com
>
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