Re: Question - Your IPL Frequency

["Jim Essinger" <dilbernator@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes - that is why we have not gone to a nightly power down, back up in the
morning.

We do use the power schedule to do the IPL on Monday morning,  Down at 5:00
AM, back up at 6:00.  We just make sure that no jobs are scheduled for that
time frame.

On 8/30/06, Haase, Justin C. <justin.haase@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I agree with your boss.  Best to leave them spinning, especially on
> older boxes.  We have a 620 that we dread to power fully off... Always
> seem to lose at least one drive every time.  If you lose two in a RAID
> set, time for a reload.  It's just not worth it with how relatively
> cheaper electricity is than employee time.  Plus, wear-and-tear on
> boards, power supplies, etc... It's a lot like a car - if you can get it
> up to highway speed, chances are barring any huge leaks or tire
> failures, it'll run indefinitely if you had limitless fuel.  Give it
> taxi duty and it'll be done for a heck of a lot quicker.
>
>
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> Justin C. Haase - iSeries System Engineer
> IBM Certified Systems Expert - System i
> Kingland Systems Corporation
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Essinger
> Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 1:15 PM
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> Subject: Re: Question - Your IPL Frequency
>
> We have talked about that.  We are done with daily processing at 6:00 PM
> and don't need the system until 7:30 the next morning.  The boss was
> concerned that the drives, if left to sit idle overnight might have
> issues, and more failures.
>
> I have not been able to convince him otherwise.
>
>
>
> On 8/30/06, rob@xxxxxxxxx <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Is there anyone out there trying to run a "green" operation that uses
> > the power schedule to power down at end of day and power it up the
> > next morning?  Or, if not the power schedule, some other method of
> > achieving same?
> >
> > Rob Berendt
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> >
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