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To eleborate a little, lets take a little example, lets say we build a Rack POD for VMware/HyperV/ESXi ect.
Lets say it looks like this:
1 x 1U server
16 x 2 U servers
2 x FC SW
2 x QFX SW
When we use the SAME servers (Mobo,CPU, RAM etc.) we can move the entire farm to another POD with no issues.
But if we start mixing hardware....oh boy here comes the nightmare, man-hours and pain.
When you runs 100's of such POD's...you do not go with the warm feelings of forum-posters, that only know their own little PC...or a single generation of benches.
For us to go AMD...Intel would have to make EPIC mistakes...because of AMD's yoyo history in enterprise...this is smart thinking...we usually try and plan minimum 3 years ahead...in order to save us from pains like the one I just described.
Again, this is not liltte Jimmy's gaming PC we are talking about.
Intel has a proven track-record...AMD does not.
It is not rocket science...
Lets say it looks like this:
1 x 1U server
16 x 2 U servers
2 x FC SW
2 x QFX SW
When we use the SAME servers (Mobo,CPU, RAM etc.) we can move the entire farm to another POD with no issues.
But if we start mixing hardware....oh boy here comes the nightmare, man-hours and pain.
When you runs 100's of such POD's...you do not go with the warm feelings of forum-posters, that only know their own little PC...or a single generation of benches.
For us to go AMD...Intel would have to make EPIC mistakes...because of AMD's yoyo history in enterprise...this is smart thinking...we usually try and plan minimum 3 years ahead...in order to save us from pains like the one I just described.
Again, this is not liltte Jimmy's gaming PC we are talking about.
Intel has a proven track-record...AMD does not.
It is not rocket science...