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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. VIrtual little boxes by kurthill4 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    I use virtual machines; very easy to schlep around if needed, very easy to launch/create a new one, etc. Linux vm's for anything needing scripting.

  2. Virtual Machines for Small Workloads by ndrw · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    For those "little boxes" that you know won't be fully utilized or need extreme resources, I suggest getting a couple of decently sized servers, running some virtualization platform (vmware, xen, windows (lol), and using virtual machines.

  3. Re:virtualization is the game now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Have you noticed how slashdot is getting stupider?
    Why does it suck so much nowadays?

    Maybe it's because moderation declines fast when there are less eyeballs per story, or something...