Hosting recommendations ... ?
Bryan Holloway
bryan at shout.net
Tue Jan 19 17:56:50 UTC 2021
On 1/19/21 6:33 PM, Brandon Martin wrote:
> On 1/19/21 11:44 AM, William Herrin wrote:
>> Cloud = you get virtual servers with virtual storage, generally
>> adjustable to meet your needs. You manage the operating systems and
>> storage within the virtual environment. You DO NOT manage the host
>> operating systems or hypervisors.
>
> It's worth pointing out that nested virtualization is a thing these
> days, and some providers might even support it! That means you could
> buy one large instance and sub-divide it yourself into multiple VMs if
> you want to.
>
> In practice, unless you need that flexibility to dynamically spin the
> VMs up and down with various specs AND don't want to or cannot use a
> provider's API for that, I'm not sure why you'd want to if you didn't
> have to for some crazy reason.
I'm very curious about your assertion:
Is nested virtualization really a thing?
I mean, I'm not exactly trying to render Pixar's latest movie ... just
trying to push some bits around (light web-sites, some e-mail ...)
It just seems inherently prone to issues.
Could you back this up with any white-papers or documentation on the
subject? I'm genuinely interested ...
- bryan
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