On 10 Nov 2015, at 12:20, Wilfried Woeber <woeber@cc.univie.ac.at> wrote:
On 2015-11-10 11:18, Stephan Wolf wrote:
ANCHOR as an VM would really make sense. What do you think about this ?
I think this would really be a BAD idea! The anchors are meant to be more capable and more stable than the candy probes. Messing around with that concept should not be done, imho.
Just my 2 cents .-)
...same here :-)
Wilfried
PS: I myself do see the beauty of the idea to virtualize the (candy-)probes, but I have - already a while ago - been convinced that the data generated by them should *not* be mixed in with the data from those under full NCC control. And whether those VM probes should even be catalogued by the NCC is another open question.
After having lived and still work in a Solaris physical metal land, I took onboard the virtual machine world for a webservice/emailservice. The virtual world is cheaper in long run. However does require a vm/ov image. I think it is important cloud as such as machines are monitored and I thought vm probe would for great for that Colin