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>We can afford to lose the last few minutes of work without anyone getting yelled at. Some modern virtualization technologies do help a lot in this regard. Running bare metal you need to be a little more careful.

How does virtualization help with data loss? I would expect that a VM can't have guarantees better than the underlying physical hardware provides.

ithkuil
VMs can be migrated to other nodes, so for example you can mitigate failures that don't occur out of the blue
robertlagrant
> How does virtualization help with data loss? I would expect that a VM can't have guarantees better than the underlying physical hardware provides.

E.g. storage virtualisation.

throwaway3699
It sounds likely that it can. Software solutions to hardware problems have been a common pattern for years now.

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