On Fri, Oct 05, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On 10/4/18 7:33 PM, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
On Thu, Oct 04, Robert Schweikert wrote:
Can you share the definition of "small and slim". What is the target size we want to get to and why does it matter if the image is a "bit" bigger?
Ever downloaded an image at every boot via LTE? That's what some of our customers are doing, as they don't want to send technicians out in the wild to do that via usb stick.
Wouldn't that be a corner case though as Robert mentioned?
Not really, the number of thus machines is higher than in a typical datacenter.
And in virtualisation environments (not public cloud), disks are no longer cheap, as you have many, many virtual machines. So why for you a jump from 8 GB to 10 GB in the public cloud is no big problem, a lot of customers would like to see that we use only 4 GB, as that would allow them to store double as many virtual machines as today. And the LTE fraction would even like to see images in the 150MB range...
I think the statement is accurate that storage prices are going down as technology progresses, not up. There might be stalls in that development from time to time, but I think the trend is clear [1].
If the need for more storage is growing faster than the price is going down, storage is getting more expensive. And a lot of datacenters are in this situation. If you can double the number of virtual machines by cutting them into halves: the price of the storage cannot going down that fast and big enough as that doubling the storage would be cheaper. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect SLES & CaaSP SUSE LINUX GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org