[THIN] Re: OT: DL360 almost humor

  • From: "Nicholls, David" <David.Nicholls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2002 10:35:51 +0100

But a DL360 is just one big hot-swap unit! 

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David Nicholls, CCA
e-Services Technology Team
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-----Original Message-----
From: Mackaway, Mark [mailto:mark.mackaway@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 August 2002 09:33
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: DL360 almost humor



My 2cents worth:

Anything with only 1 PSU is always going to be a liability.  From an
ex-medical and now banking POV then the 360s (and we have 10 here with no
dramas) are only used for expendible, non-LOB applications.  For the
terminal servers we use 80 380s/380G2s,and have about one hardware problem
every two months, and that is a usually a disk failure.  But when one PSU
goes I am always thankful for the spare.  

For important NT-based backend apps we use clustered servers.  It depends on
how much you want to lose your data.  

You pays your money, and you takes your chances, though.

Mark



Mark Mackaway 
Snr. Network Analyst, 
Citrix Network Development 
Royal Bank of Scotland, Offshore
Jersey, Channel Islands



-----Original Message-----
From: Angus Macdonald [mailto:Angus.Macdonald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 13 August 2002 09:08
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: DL360 almost humor


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I just don't think the DL360 is reliable. In addition to several PSUs, I've
had three dead motherboards, a faulty DIMM and a trashed RAID controller.
I've only got 9 machines.

-----Original Message-----
From: brian.hill@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:brian.hill@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 August 2002 21:04
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: DL360 almost humor



Hey, stuff happens.  Nothing is perfect.  Think if your work was judged the
in the same manner you are judging the DL360.  If the same standards were
used (zero tolerance for failure) then you would probably be out of a job.
Even with the bad power supplies (which are now fixed) they are still great
servers.  They are still my server of choice for the level of flexibility
they offer.  I haven't had any power supply failures once they have been
replaced.  Compared to any of the Dell, HP, or IBM servers, the Compaq
servers rock.  With exception to the power supply failures on the DL360s,
I've had zero problems with my any of my Compaq servers.  With the
redundancy that I have built in thanks to the inexpensive DL360s, the impact
from the power supply failures has been minimal.  The DL360s have still
achieve 99% uptime even with the faulty power supplies at a fraction of the
cost of big servers.

Brian

-----Original Message-----
From: Anderson, Frank [mailto:Frank.Anderson@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 3:09 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: DL360 almost humor



To add:

10 power supply replacements out of 12 here.

-Frank



-----Original Message-----
From: Ziots, Edward [mailto:EZiots@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 1:21 PM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: DL360 almost humor



Yep,=20

I have had 5 at my site go bad also, I think there was a previous thread =
on
this, I never trusted the Pizza boxes that much anyways, and the Compaq
Folks was in my datacenter getting serial numbers for the units that =
haven't
failed yet, to get the fix for em.=20

Word to the wise, GO WITH THE CHEAP STUFF, GET THE CHEAP RESULTS.=20

EZ

-----Original Message-----
From: Mason Dively [mailto:mdively@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 11:52 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: DL360 almost humor


Wow!!  That is hilarious!!  Its funny because I understand your pain--we
have about 10 of those bad boys and have had to replace the power =
supplies
on all but 1 or 2.  Compaq has a Service Advisory about these being
defective in a portion of the 360's, but the kicker is they won't =
replace
the power supply until it goes bad--so basically you have to wait until =
your
server dies!! =20

Thanks,
=20
Mason B. Dively  MCP,CCA
Amdocs CMI Windows Administration


-----Original Message-----
From: Stansel, Paul [mailto:Paul.Stansel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 10:41 AM
To: 'thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: [THIN] OT: DL360 almost humor


For those that remember the threads a few weeks ago about DL360s...=20

I had purchased 3 of them almost a year ago.  They sat humming quietly =
along
in my datacenter.  I never had a problem.  Until this morning.  I came =
in to
find one down.  Tried to boot it, and it said the power supply was bad.
Thankfully I keep a spare.  Replaced it, rebooted, all was good.  As it =
was
coming up, a second one suddenly powered down.  I said "hmmm...." and =
tried
to power it back up.  Bad power supply!  I pulled one of my test 360s =
and
yanked the power supply from it, and got that one rebooting.  As it was
coming up... you guessed it, the 3rd died.  I swear, it was so funny I =
had
to laugh.  They actually died in the same order they had been activated =
in,
one right after the other.  I felt like I was on Bloopers or something!  =
The
third, sadly, is down until I can get a replacement power supply.  Gah!

-Paul


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