They put more risk in a single box than most of us are equipped to handle
Intel recently teased a 128-core Granite Rapids Xeon 6 processor, and your humble vulture thinks you can ignore them – indeed, ignoring them might be your safest course of action.
You don’t have to do this. And if you didn't want to do this, hold firm. Plenty of orgs have standardized on modest hardware and done just fine. But if the boss reads about the chance for a fresh wave of server consolidation in an airline magazine, have them consider a few items. Next, ponder whether your DR rig is set up to quickly handle 128 cores worth of workload. Failover and VM teleportation tech like VMware’s vMotion remains almost miraculous. But the DR practices you built for your current fleet may not work well when moving more data. Data protection and storage vendors will claim they’re ready, but their reference architectures won’t survive contact with the enemy.
Those orgs can buy servers by the boatload and understand how to make them pay without tying up capital. They’re also masters of resilience and redundancy and have built predicted hardware failure rates into their pricing and plans.
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