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Originally Posted by CRussel
Oh, you should have seen the TWO UPSs we had for the production HP-UX boxes at a joint-venture automotive company I worked for in California. They literally had to bring them in with a fork lift, and they sat behind the main dispatchers control panel, keeping all the servers up. Noise wasn't an issue, since it was an assembly line environment. But they could keep the 4 HP-UX boxes and two PCs up and running happily for >4 hours. And the heat they produced?!! But that was one job where money to keep things running was easy to come by. Downtime worked out to ~$6k a minute at that point in the production process.
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I've seen equivalents. At company HQ at aforementioned employer, we were constantly adding new servers, and pulling in additional power to run them. I realized we were going to have problems when I
didn't have to wear a sweater in the server room.
We wound up having to beef up the A/C, and the UPS (a Liebert unit, IIRC.)
There was an emergency switch to hit that would trigger the Halon fire suppression system in the room right by the door. I can't tell you how tempted I was to slap it on the way out on more than one occasion...
I thought our servers were underutilized, and pushed to go with something like VMWare. My boss said out British sister company tried that and failed, so we wouldn't. I thought the sister company simply didn't know what they were doing, but we couldn't come out and
say that...
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Dennis