-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of John R Pierce Subject: Re: [CentOS] OEM suggestions
On 5/30/2014 5:28 AM, Andrew Holway wrote:
As I think about it, the control node for the UV 2000 looks
an*awful* lot
like a Penguin....
SuperMicro gear is only as good as the server integration
company selling
it.
bingo. I think too many people buy 'whitebox' supermicro stuff
direct
and self-integrate, then are surprised when there are issues. Integration needs to include testing. All that integration and
testing
is why brands like HP are more expensive, you can usually assume
its
going to work.
This is exactly why we use SuperMicro for most of our system bases. They provide excellent integrator support but the complete systems MUST be tested and burned-in after assembly.
We build them up with the best components BUT we do a 168 hour burn-in and then test again afterwards. Once a unit has been burned-in for 168 hour with no failures, we have seen less than a 0.1% system failure rate over the first 3 years.
BTW, we see a >5% failure rate of disk drives during burn-in. Infant mortality is horrendous on disks. Especially on Seagate drives. We have a program we wrote in house just for disk / RAID array burn-in and performance testing under CentOS.
I agree with John: Any system is only as good as the integrator that builds, test AND burns in its products.
Seth Bardash
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