The standing joke amongst my co-workers is that ”enterprise” in this context is the tier you reach when you have gotten ripped of enough by third party vendors.
You usual run of the mill enterprise use most of this horsepower to heat air and have large clusters of oracle db’s power even more expensive SAP modules.
There’s a reason no serious iaas provider build infra this way.
I have one example, actually an old customer to the vendor that used to employ me, that had probably well over 1k of tennants all with VM’s and DB’s backed by humongous SAN (replicated ofc!).
Not nice when corrupt data was mirrored due to a software bug in said SAN system.
This went to a national level, really, due to the nature of many of the customers.
Sure you can build a reasonable architecture using the products and vendors mentioned, but, it doesn’t scale and it really locks you in.
I’ve seen and worked this stuff at numerous enterprises.
This only makes it my experience and one datapoint, so please bear that in mind! =D
You usual run of the mill enterprise use most of this horsepower to heat air and have large clusters of oracle db’s power even more expensive SAP modules.
There’s a reason no serious iaas provider build infra this way. I have one example, actually an old customer to the vendor that used to employ me, that had probably well over 1k of tennants all with VM’s and DB’s backed by humongous SAN (replicated ofc!).
Not nice when corrupt data was mirrored due to a software bug in said SAN system. This went to a national level, really, due to the nature of many of the customers.
Sure you can build a reasonable architecture using the products and vendors mentioned, but, it doesn’t scale and it really locks you in.
I’ve seen and worked this stuff at numerous enterprises.
This only makes it my experience and one datapoint, so please bear that in mind! =D