I think ESO has grown too big for a single mega server anymore.

blabliblargh

Maybe there are scalability issues and throwing more hardware at it is not a solution. Only the people that have developed the system truly know what are the real bottlenecks. It's also a system designed a long time ago, so is likely to be a lot of technical debt that is hard to fix or improve.

Elsonso

emeraldshado wrote: »

this really depends on what the term "mega server" is. is it an HP Elite desktop?

is it an HPE BladeSystem c7000

The enclosure is 10U high and holds up to 16 server and/or storage blades plus optional redundant network and storage interconnect modules. It includes a shared 7.1 Tbps high-speed NonStop mid-plane for wire-once connectivity of server blades to network and shared storage. Power is delivered through a pooled-power backplane, and power input flexibility is provided with choices of single-phase AC input, 3-phase AC input, -48V DC input, and high voltage DC input.


or is it a single HPDL380 G10 with 512G of RAM, 72 cpu, 2 physical, and 10TB of storage, though i find both of those options would be potential over kill.

but i'm not sure their Mega server is so mega.

They could run 10G nics to their demarcation point, so their auth servers and the game server, if not hosted on same host if vms, both would have 10G, but then the ISP would still be the network based bottle neck.

it really comes down to the definition of mega and the underlying infrastructure.

It is HPE BladeSystem c7000 in several racks. (as of last we knew)