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This is what is what the situation would look like from the user end in the event of blade failure, or in this instance an IT anarchist simply pulling the blade from the system.
In our demonstration the terminal went down for about a minute, and within that time the session allocation manager was able to provide a new blade, which then required the user to log on again.
Flynn said that a typical ratio for redundant backup blades was about one-hundred to one, but that would vary depending on how mission critical the system was. Flynn said that different user groups can be assigned higher privileges or more backup blades.
Caption by: Alex Serpo
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