Rajagopal Swaminathan wrote:
Greetings,
On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 11:27 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Why don't you call your Congresscritter and Senator, and tell them you personally want to donate the money to replace everything we have that doesn't have IPMI, and pay for the time install and cable it all up? That would be *great*... of course, some of our latest servers have 48 cores, and we just got some 64 core servers, so it might cost you a pretty penny....
Oh, yes, and then there's the official requirement that I be here during business hours.
I have to apolgise here Dear Mark.
Your country has placed so may restrictions on "exports" that even India (a de-facto nuclear power) does not have the privilege of having such hardware. Even "Redhat" is afraid.
Oh? That level hardware is a no-no? I admit, they *are* brand new, and given the very serious scientific computing we do here, they're *needed* (some folks' jobs run, on a cluster like the above, 2, 3, 4 *days*. Then there was the guy about a couple years ago, who asked me to hold off rebooting his home directory server until his job finished.
Two *weeks* later, I got to reboot....
That said, I have had situation in IDC's where I have managed about 45 Rack servers and 10 Blades -- all (then) Sun X and V servers from ground (tile floor up) for an App that is designed to tun on "only" those servers. I know the enormous difficulties the customer faced, and I had to help them justify.
Sun? Debacle, er, Oracle? Oh, *Ghu*, I'm *so* sorry. It took me a month to get one server repaired, getting an FE out, the beginning of this year. (Meanwhile, Dell's had two SE's over the course of three days in the last *week*). If my manager, the other admin, or I have anything to do with it, we *ain't* buying more Sun/Oracle.
So let us just chill.
Actually no, we turned off the a/c in the room I spent, um, about 7 hours in with the FE between yesterday and today.... <g>
mark