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Ask Slashdot: Little Boxes Around the Edge of the Data Center?

Posted by timothy on from the gee-look-at-all-the-little-black-dots dept.

First time accepted submitter spaceyhackerlady writes "We're looking at some new development, and a big question mark is the little boxes around the edge of the data center — the NTP servers, the monitoring boxes, the stuff that supports and interfaces with the Big Iron that does the real work. The last time I visited a hosting farm I saw shelves of Mac Minis, but that was five years ago. What do people like now for their little support boxes?"

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  1. Re:virtualization is the game now by Zaelath · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Virtualized NTP is about the dumbest thing I've read on /.

    Yes, worse than various conspiracy theories and fanboi wars.

  2. Previous gen hardware by trandles · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Last generation's compute nodes. We keep some around for utility functions after decommissioning a large cluster.

  3. Re:virtualization is the game now by 0123456 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    To be fair, if someone cares enough about time accuracy to understand why that's a dumb idea, they should probably be using a GPS receiver instead of a PC.

  4. performance? by Chirs · · Score: 5, Insightful

    NTP server is all about consistency. If it's running in a VM and can be delayed at the whim of the host, do you think it's going to be a very good source of time?