Senior Analyst, Servers, Matt Kimball, dives in as Google Cloud Platform (GCP) announced the coming availability of its Arm-based instance, the Tau T2A, last week to address the ever-expanding needs of customers developing and deploying scale-out, cloud-native workloads.
Google is careful in how it positions its VM instances. When the company released its Tau VM family last year, it was very clear in positioning these as cost-effective, scale-out VMs. As one would expect with “cost-effective,” some options customers may prefer are lacking, such as local SSD support and higher bandwidth networking . Further, once a customer is locked into a T2A VM size , they cannot dynamically add more resources.
While Arm is not going to replace x86 to run virtualized infrastructure on VMware anytime soon, there are still use cases where Arm is a good fit. In its, one of GCP's reference customers is Harvard University. The school runs several compute-intensive workloads on SLURM VirtualFlow, and T2A allows it to run tens of thousands of VMs in parallel, reducing compute time significantly. But here’s the key to what Harvard had to say – the migration to T2A was done with minimal effort.
Further proof of Arm's move into the datacenter can be seen in HPE's announcement of the upcoming ProLiant RL300 Gen11 server based on Ampere's Altra CPU. This is the first mainstream server that HPE has announced ahead of its Gen11 launch, and I expect the market will see competitors roll out its servers in time.I don’t believe that Google is interested in investing in and rolling out an Arm-based instance to be like every other cloud provider.
I believe my only question is around the longer-term strategy for Google and Arm. There are two camps in the CSP space: those that design its silicon and those that deploy Ampere. Given Google's history in silicon development, could we see a custom chip in the future? It is a scenario that is entirely plausible.Google rounds out support for Arm from the major CSPs with its Tau T2A VM offering, based on Ampere Computing’s Altra CPU.
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