Comments on: Sun Project Blackbox – Datacenter in a Can http://spiralbound.net/2008/02/26/sun-project-blackbox-datacenter-in-a-can my digital notebook Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:23:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Overheard in the Tech Blogosphere: Project Blackbox = a “data center in can?” — Our Latest Discovery http://spiralbound.net/2008/02/26/sun-project-blackbox-datacenter-in-a-can#comment-146405 Overheard in the Tech Blogosphere: Project Blackbox = a “data center in can?” — Our Latest Discovery Wed, 19 Mar 2008 19:52:50 +0000 http://spiralbound.net/2008/02/26/sun-project-blackbox-datacenter-in-a-can#comment-146405 [...] - Cliff R. Pearson [...] [...] – Cliff R. Pearson [...]

]]> By: Bishop http://spiralbound.net/2008/02/26/sun-project-blackbox-datacenter-in-a-can#comment-145868 Bishop Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:33:44 +0000 http://spiralbound.net/2008/02/26/sun-project-blackbox-datacenter-in-a-can#comment-145868 Aside from military or First Response hotzone applications, what's the real value of this thing? Data centres aren't made to house an 18-wheeler, and things you can wheel in quickly can also be wheeled out. What, stash a black thing in our parking lot, with feeble 50kv umbilicals to light it? No. I use a card to access the DC at work, and that's for a reason. Now, a full rack cabinet one can ship, unload, wheel in and light up in an hour, that'd make me weak in the knees. Dynamically managing resources in my vmware clusters? I don't mind even cold migration if it means we can empty an old DC in a night, upgrade it, and then move other resources in (round-robin upgrades on a 20 years plan still means one a year) Aside from military or First Response hotzone applications, what’s the real value of this thing? Data centres aren’t made to house an 18-wheeler, and things you can wheel in quickly can also be wheeled out.

What, stash a black thing in our parking lot, with feeble 50kv umbilicals to light it? No. I use a card to access the DC at work, and that’s for a reason.

Now, a full rack cabinet one can ship, unload, wheel in and light up in an hour, that’d make me weak in the knees. Dynamically managing resources in my vmware clusters? I don’t mind even cold migration if it means we can empty an old DC in a night, upgrade it, and then move other resources in (round-robin upgrades on a 20 years plan still means one a year)

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