This article evaluates the impact of deploying larger, higher-density "monster" servers on blast radius failure recovery time compared to smaller nodes in Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms. The testing focuses on validating real-world architectural concerns, including whether higher core density increases operational risk, whether evacuation and recovery times are worse with larger, higher core-count nodes, and whether blast radius is driven by node size, or by imbalance of compute, storage, and networking performance.
