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

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

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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