merging servers into one

Gentoopc · Guru Joined: 25 Dec 2017 Posts: 377

Hello forum. Tell me, for example, there are three servers that I rented. Each of them has a 96-core CPU. Is there any software that will allow me to combine these servers into one and work with it as a 288-core server? Is it possible to install any desktop operating system on such a 288-core server?

loravis · n00b Joined: 29 Dec 2024 Posts: 2

I don't think that's possible, at least I wasn't able to find something like this on the internet. What would you need this kind of setup for?

alamahant · Advocate Joined: 23 Mar 2019 Posts: 3939

Try Openstack and create your own personal cloud.
It will create a pool of resources and then you can create a tenant or VM with all these resources.
Or maybe VmWare has some solution for you.You have to check it out.
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Banana · Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 10:13 am Post subject:

In short: You need to "combine" them. Like using them for virtualiziation. They would be the hosts and running on top of them would be VMs which could use the resources from the hosts.
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pingtoo · Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2025 11:45 am Post subject: Re: merging servers into one

Ralphred · l33t Joined: 31 Dec 2013 Posts: 701

The only thing I've come across that did this was a pre-ESXi version of VMWare, it was very niche, the overhead was ridiculous (as was the infrastructure for it), and whilst it did what you are suggesting it's goal was uncommonly high "HA".
The paradigm has inverted since then, now we have promox and ceph et al running/shifting a bunch of "small" containers amongst "large" machines, instead of a bunch of "small" machines under a "large" hypervisor.