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in our case Sun's CPUs have the highest probability of failure. Disks are not actually made by sun (western digital, or whatever), and I believe we only had 1-2 disk failures, but since everything is mirrored, doesn't affect us much.
On Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:50:46 GMT, gdas_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We are just a few months away from the launch of our system. I'm
>currently trying to do a scenario report for potential disasters that
>might occur and their impacts on the database (and ultimately the
>business!). The purpose of this is to make sure that we have all the
>redunant components and procedures in place.
>
>Specifically in regards to the database, does anyone know of a good
>resource (book, magazine, web site) that discusses failure
>probabilities of hardware? Or can anyone answer these questions here?
>
>We'll be running Oracle 8.1.6 on Sun Enterprise servers.
>
>I have a hunch that the highest probability of failure will be in the
>disk drives, followed by the disk controllers. What other hardware
>components do you think I should be concerned about?
>
>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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