> Wouldn't it be great to power down an idle server, knowing that it can be switched on seconds before you actually need it?
considering you would still need to boot the VMs then, once the Oxide system is up, I’m not sure if this is such a big win.
And at a certain scale you’d probably have something like multiple systems and VMware vMotion or alternatives anyway. So if the ESXi host (for example) takes a while to boot, I wouldn’t care too much.
And, economics of elasticity - you’d still have to buy the Oxide server, even if it’s idle.
