5. Platform Dependent Proc
Extremely low price
OS/Hypervisor lock out
Orchestration freedom
Don’t waste your time on
$ calculations
Dedicated Server PaaS
Flexible PasYG price
Does not require any
system administration
Failover by design
Cloud Provider
Price could be managed
by resource freeing
Unlimited scaling
Rapid env. deployment
using platform tools
Bare Metal
20. Operating
system
Points to check
Filesystem - ext4, xfs, noatime
Memory - disable swap/swappiness
Network - tcp r/wmem, buffers
Process - limits, open files
Prepare ready images no
post-installation provisioning
Compile - it could save 10-20%
21. Distro Selection
Lifecycle
RHEL/CentOS - 10 years
Ubuntu LTS - 5 years
Debian ~ 3 years
Gentoo - rolling release
Upgrade
CentOS - pain
Ubuntu/Debian - ok
Gentoo - pain/ok
Packages Available
RHEL/CentOS repo - 6000
Ubuntu Universe - 23,000
Debian - 23,000
Gentoo - 19,692
OpenStack, K8, Swarm:
CentOS/Ubuntu - Good
Debian - Normal
Lyfecycle
Packages AvailableLyfecycle
Upgrade procedure Platform Support
22. Virtualization
Containerization
Points to check
Free and popular: KVM, Xen, Docker,
ESXi*
Live migration support
Hosted OS requirements
For licensed features fill the top of
hardware limits
HCL could be bypassed
24. Databases
Points to check
Choose the DB by the planned
workload
Check the CAP Theorem
Fault tolerance and recovery speed
Use profilers and query monitoring
Buffers and pools has significant
impact
26. Price depends on
Number of instance types and roles
Quality of automation
Incident response/resolution time
Number request for env. changes
Mad man coefficient