[Info-vax] VMS on Raspberry Pi 5

Ahem A Rivet's Shot steveo at eircom.net
Wed Nov 15 09:43:02 EST 2023


On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 08:06:00 -0500
Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:

> On 11/15/2023 2:44 AM, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

> > 	I don't know about McDonald's but these days a lot of really big
> > systems run as a large (and variable) number of micro-services in
> > containers under Kubernetes. Scalability is the watchword today.
> > Sometimes they run on Z/OS machines (usually running Linux) otherwise
> > they run on a mix of blade servers (CPU and RAM tightly packed) and SAN
> > storage (lots of NVMe SSDs) connected with 40Gb or 100Gb ethernet.
> > Infrastructure as a service they call it.
> 
> Most run such workloads in AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI.

	Of course, these environments are built for that purpose and allow
the systems developers to assume the Kubernetes infrastructure without
having to maintain it. But it is possible to run such workloads in a
private data centre - "TrueNAS Scale" is one fairly easy way.

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