inman.turbo
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I for one would be interested in purchasing SCALE nodes built on ix hardware. Is there any plan to do that? I understand SCALE will remain open source and that's wonderful, however there's no reason why ixsystems can't offer a ready to go node, representing the ideal combination of hardware and software for scale.
The fantastic thing about this is that as your needs grow, you can just buy (or build -- depending on your support and/or budgetary needs!) another server and add it to the cluster, possibly even preconfigured by ixsystems to work in your cluster!
I can even imagine a model which tracks load and generates an alert suggesting a node addition when a certain target is hit.
Anyhoo I haven't seen a roadmap for anything like this, so I thought I would open a thread where we could discuss it and express our interest.
I could easily picture our datacenter running on nothing but ixsystems under this paradigm, provided that ixsystems proves to be as adept with compute as they are with storage.
Our operational cost tends to be much higher than hardware cost (of course), and hardware purchases tend to lead to more operational cost.
Hardware purchases which could reduce operational costs would be ideal, as we could then divert some of those engineering cycles from operations into more QA, product development, and product management. Just my thoughts.
The fantastic thing about this is that as your needs grow, you can just buy (or build -- depending on your support and/or budgetary needs!) another server and add it to the cluster, possibly even preconfigured by ixsystems to work in your cluster!
I can even imagine a model which tracks load and generates an alert suggesting a node addition when a certain target is hit.
Anyhoo I haven't seen a roadmap for anything like this, so I thought I would open a thread where we could discuss it and express our interest.
I could easily picture our datacenter running on nothing but ixsystems under this paradigm, provided that ixsystems proves to be as adept with compute as they are with storage.
Our operational cost tends to be much higher than hardware cost (of course), and hardware purchases tend to lead to more operational cost.
Hardware purchases which could reduce operational costs would be ideal, as we could then divert some of those engineering cycles from operations into more QA, product development, and product management. Just my thoughts.
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