RE: Power7 Hardware reliability

[Pete Massiello - ML <pmassiello-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would agree with Larry 1000%.

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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of DrFranken
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2013 6:08 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Power7 Hardware reliability

I support or own literally dozens of these servers.

Other than a smattering of drives here and there I can recall only one
5913 RAID card failure. Even that one was still functional but IBM i voted it off the island so it was replaced.


         - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 6/17/2013 3:47 PM, Steinmetz, Paul wrote:

> Looking for feedback on Power7 hardware reliability.
> We are on a P7 8205-E6C for one year.
> Replacing the VPD card for a 2nd time, requires new codes, process is 
> a bit tedious.  (Not hot swappable) Motherboard or backplane was replaced this past March, this was scary, every component swapped out and in.
> Performance is great, but never had hardware issues like this on Power5 or previous hardware.
>
> Thank You
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> Paul Steinmetz
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