Indeed, that is the magic of VM and SAN. They can change the truck’s engine while its traveling down the road at 60mph. I was a skeptic until I saw it in action. Hot swapping of disks, memory, even ‘blades’ with CPUs on them happens transparently.
Keep in mind, though, that this is not done to save money. It might save money, but what it really does is make systems more reliable and faster to deploy. Tom Benedict > On Oct 10, 2019, at 09:12, Peter Jakobsson via 4D_Tech <4d_tech@lists.4d.com> > wrote: > >> On 10 Oct 2019, at 16:58, Chip Scheide <4d_o...@pghrepository.org> wrote: >> >> that all is great until the hardware running the 4,382,619 VMs crashes > > According to “the guy”, that’s all taken care of. Even if the “metal” melts > down, the VM’s just “seamlessly” migrate themselves onto other metal without > the users even knowing ! ********************************************************************** 4D Internet Users Group (4D iNUG) Archive: http://lists.4d.com/archives.html Options: https://lists.4d.com/mailman/options/4d_tech Unsub: mailto:4d_tech-unsubscr...@lists.4d.com **********************************************************************
