Quote Originally Posted by 'entoptic',index.php?page=Thread&postID=77232#post 77232
There is one downside though to using 1 computer with a dope hardware setup. If it crashes then everything crashes, that is not good when you are neck deep in ally blood!
It is also worth pointing out that with more hardware you are increasing the probability of having a failure.

This is usually where the virtual/physical argument degrades, then someone points out that if the service level agreement (SLA) of a service requires a very high uptime with very little downtime it needs to be a clustered/mirrored/load balanced solution (depending on SLA requirements).

Although, I think mirroring the memory of my desktops to another box over Infiniband on the off chance they die so I can pick up exactly where I left off is a little too much.