[geeks] Virtual Machine Hosting

[Lionel Peterson]

On May 7, 2009, at 11:42 AM, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> Lionel Peterson wrote:
>> You know, a proper VM host (to my mind) wouldn't take a 'big bad'  
>> server, two quad core CPUs, 8 Gigs of RAM, and a RAID 1 terrabyte  
>> array can be had for under one grand, and could host a bunch of 512  
>> Meg RAM VMs...
>> Of course, you are giving up redundant PS and spiffy rack form  
>> factor, but that's a lot of computin' for under a grand...
>
> A "proper" VM host has redundant CPUs/memory and coprocessed I/O.   
> And uptimes measured in decades.  8-)

Speaking of big iron, when did RAID become Redundant Array of  
INDEPENDENT Disks? I saw this on a Dell tech certification test a  
while ago, and it's been bugging me for a while. Didn't it start out  
as Inexpensive, in comparison to mainframe DASD, the place where RAID  
started?

Lionel