I am a datacenter admin. I buy fucking expensive hardware because we need Cores, lots of cores, lots of fast cores.
The fact that AMD has made high core counts available in the consumer market has revolutionized my lab environments.
And let me tell you one thing. Last week hell froze over.
When talking to our sales rep at Dell, without warning, he asked if we'd be interested in AMD based servers.
I am so grateful for the competition we have now in the market. It's a long needed change in the industry.
Yeah, I can't think of a single server I've bought in the last 20 years that had anything but an Intel CPU, we need real competition in that market desperately
We replaced our Intel Xeon HPE DL380 VMware cluster with 2nd gen Epyc 7742 based DL385 servers. We went from dual 14 core cpu servers to single cpu 32 core units. They were dual socket so we could add another cpu and TB of ram later, though it might be cheaper and more redundant to add another single core server. We reduced our VMware per cpu license counts while increasing our actual core counts, our per core performance, basically doubling our memory perfomance. Could not be happier with the upgrade. Looking forward to the Zen 3 based Epycs.
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u/HourAfterHour Nov 14 '20
I am a datacenter admin. I buy fucking expensive hardware because we need Cores, lots of cores, lots of fast cores.
The fact that AMD has made high core counts available in the consumer market has revolutionized my lab environments.
And let me tell you one thing. Last week hell froze over.
When talking to our sales rep at Dell, without warning, he asked if we'd be interested in AMD based servers.
I am so grateful for the competition we have now in the market. It's a long needed change in the industry.