Client is cash-poor, in particular, is really feeling the squeeze from the death of the dial-up industry.
Saving $3,000 while still providing reasonable options for "worst case" can provide a lot of brownie points... in any event, I've done a fairly large number of hardware swaps between P3/P4/Athlon systems, and haven't had much trouble with it. When the next Opteron server comes in, after I've set it up, I'll test it out on an Athlon/64 system I can borrow for a bit and see what issues I run into.
-Ben
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 14:44, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
Chris Mauritz chrism@imntv.com wrote:
I'm sure you already know this, but.... if it's THAT critical of a machine then it would probably be in your best interest to have a spare or two. Whenever
I
stop using one brand of server and begin using another type (at least in rackmount datacenter situations), I always
have
at least one spare installed.
I have to 2nd Chris' notion here. Anytime you have 3 or more systems, the cost to procure a spare is not much of an additional cost -- especially without fixed disk storage (which is typically the majority cost of any system).
One set of a spare, pre-assembled enclosure (including hot-swap disk), mainboard, CPU(s), memory, NIC(s) and storage controller(s) is always a good move when downtime is to be avoided at all costs (without breaking the bank on a failover implementation).
I just popped out the "hot plug" drive(s) on the stricken machine and plugged them into the spare system, flicked a power switch, and voila.
Yep, make the spare ready-to-use using existing storage. Once you have the system back up on the new "shell," you can always go back and debug the failed "shell." In the worst case, it now becomes your "spare parts" system.
-- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance
b.j.smith@ieee.org http://thebs413.blogspot.com
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