Re: contingency planning for hardware failures?

Hi Gavin,

> What other hardware
> components do you think I should be concerned about?
>

Main problem are software errors.
We use always 2 identical servers and life is hard enough anyway.

Harddisks are as cheap as chewing gum.
Memory is the same.

Power supplies often fail.

Convince your management to buy 2 -identical- systems. It is worth gold if you can swap hardware to find problems or make test/installs on the idle system.

kind regards,

Toni

> We don't have deep pockets so I don't think I can convince management
> to buy duplicate sun servers at $100K each and have them sitting idle
> in case of a failure. Unless of course the probability of a failure
> occurring on the motherboard or something like that is high enough.
>
> I appreciate any feedback.
> Thanks,
> Gavin
>
>
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