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Fitting a fleet into a maintenance window requires enough parallelism that hosts times per-host time divides into the window. Five hundred hosts at eight minutes each is 4,000 host-minutes, needing seventeen in parallel to fit four hours — which is only feasible with automation, since no small team supervises seventeen concurrent reboots manually.
Window planning
required parallelism = ceil(hosts x minutes per host / window minutes); hosts per window = window minutes x parallelism / minutes per host
Then the work needs more windows rather than more parallelism. Spreading across several nights is safer than taking too much capacity offline at once.
Yes, and it should be. Automated health checks between batches with an abort on failure is both faster and safer than manual supervision at this scale.