> They mentioned it really quickly in their Oxide an Friends podcast but, IIRC, prices start at $500k. Some of the audience asked if they were going to do a smaller configuration like half or quarter rack. And they said they were looking into it but weren't sure the of the business case.
That strikes me as being in the right ballpark, but it's going to be tough to swallow since that's the lowest level of granularity.
For most orgs you'd be left paying for a lot of excess capacity you couldn't immediately put to use as you migrate workloads in. I guess in ~4 years once you reach steady state and you're retiring / replacing these things it all works out, but if you're migrating from vmware or something else in a traditional blade/chassis world it's not like you can just wave a magic wand and move $500k worth of compute over to this thing at once.
If you're green fielding something, that's a lot of cash to sink in on compute you may not need for some time in the future. Never mind your DR site(s) also needing that much...
That strikes me as being in the right ballpark, but it's going to be tough to swallow since that's the lowest level of granularity.
For most orgs you'd be left paying for a lot of excess capacity you couldn't immediately put to use as you migrate workloads in. I guess in ~4 years once you reach steady state and you're retiring / replacing these things it all works out, but if you're migrating from vmware or something else in a traditional blade/chassis world it's not like you can just wave a magic wand and move $500k worth of compute over to this thing at once.
If you're green fielding something, that's a lot of cash to sink in on compute you may not need for some time in the future. Never mind your DR site(s) also needing that much...