Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Per Jessen
wrote: Michal Kubecek wrote:
On Friday 23 of October 2015 17:30:41 Per Jessen wrote:
Claudio Freire wrote:
Yes, but call the pattern "container minimal". Calling it "server" makes it seem like it's for a... you know... server. Which elicits thoughts of a physical machine in my language.
Absolutely. A virtual server too, but first and foremost real iron.
Less and less true, these days. Actually, I believe the percentage of server systems running on their dedicated physical machines is already decreasing for 10-15 years.
Maybe not quite that far back, but as Claudio says, the word "server" elicits thoughts of a physical machine.
Roughly 10 years ago I was system architect at Ford (as a consultant).
10 years is probably more accurate - in 2005, Xen was just about getting production ready, but only just.
We were put through a physical to virtual migration. It actually failed for reasons I never understood, but they were certainly aggressively trying to consolidate physical servers into virtual platforms.
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