[CentOS] OEM suggestions
Seth Bardash
seth at integratedsolutions.org
Fri May 30 18:23:37 UTC 2014
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From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at 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
Integrated Solutions and Systems
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