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Review: Levanta Intrepid M (Linux.com)
Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
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the Levanta Intrepid M on Linux.com.
"So, how does it work? Basically, the Intrepid M provides centralized management for Linux servers and workstations. Machines that are managed by the Intrepid, boot over the network off of images stored on the Intrepid, called Vservers. The Intrepid also provides storage for those machines, so local disks are not necessary.
Once a machine boots off of the Intrepid appliance, you can manage the machine from the Intrepid interface -- so it's possible to update systems, reboot, power on or off, and even move a managed host from one physical machine to another.
The most appealing thing about the Intrepid is that it abstracts the system from the hardware."
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Boot time Posted Jul 19, 2006 6:07 UTC (Wed) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link] OK, suppose I have a thousand diskless hosts connected to this Intrepid M thing. How long does it take to boot all thousand machines? Unless Levanta is doing something remarkably clever, I'm betting it will take a remarkably long time. Local disks all operate in parallel, but the Intrepid M's network interface doesn't. Even if all the hosts boot from (mostly) the same set of files, and they're all buffered in RAM, the files have to be sent out a thousand times each -- unless it's using some sort of broadcast scheme. I'm betting it's not.
If you use this system, you'd better have arrangements to avoid a need to boot all lots of hosts at once, in a hurry.
Boot time Posted Jul 19, 2006 15:13 UTC (Wed) by ntang (guest, #15575) [Link] The box only supports around 40-50 clients.
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