Robbing Peter to pay Paul
Monday, February 08, 2010
2:12 PM
Robbing Peter to pay Paul
In a cloud, the number of server instances is fixed and the number of application instances per server instance is (as a first approximation) fixed. 
If we provision a server instance for one application, its resources are not available for others. 
Thus we must often make tradeoffs between provisioning one application instance or another on a server instance. 