Re: Perhaps their time has come.....

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep and they were not interested. HOWEVER they are now a customer of 
iInTheCloud, LLC. :-)

The other is a global corporation that you would know at least by their 
products as there is a better than average chance you have that in your 
home or even on your person. They have an operations desk staffed 24x7 
with system consoles available to all POWER Systems. But to them these 
are the ugly step children because they have been migrating to Windows 
since 1997. (They're almost there!)  The only thing left on POWER is 
receiving, inventory, shipping, and EDI. :-)

To be fair they HAVE had some bad luck as well. One complete system 
outage due to a tech (NOT IBM) pulling not the dead drive but the one 
next to it. They also had a cache battery fail (not age out) on a Power5 
520 internal RAID card. This occurred at the same point where they had a 
drive fail and in that debacle sufficient data for at least one other 
drive was lost causing the system to die. IBM Was on site for this one 
and near as we can tell it was all murphy on this one.

But remember that these RAID cards are getting as old as the drives! 
Also remember batteries aren't perfect and back then redundant cache was 
an option but not on all cards.

Keeping 'free' old hardware around just isn't really free!

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

www.frankeni.com
www.iDevCloud.com
www.iInTheCloud.com

On 4/1/2015 7:48 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Have they thought about some sort of Managed System Services by you to
> weekly report that all disks are ok, both power supplies are running good
> and no critical system situations exist?
> Perhaps with the usual disclaimer at the bottom:
> Based on the following:
> - The age of this hardware, including, but not limited to, the number of
> rotations on the drives,
> - The age of this OS and the numerous security patches that have arrived
> since
> I recommend an upgrade of both hardware and software be evaluated.
>
>
> Rob Berendt