[K12OSN] I need opinions....backup idea for when Terminal server down and I'm not around

[Eric Harrison]

On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Jim McQuillan wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jul 2005, Christopher K. Johnson wrote:
>
>> Jim McQuillan wrote:
>>
>>> Hmm,  hot-pluggable, but not redundant?  /me wonders what's the point.
>>> if a non-redundant power supply fails, everything goes cold  :)
>>>
>>> But, you make excellent points, and I agree completely.
>>>
>> /you wonders with reasonable cause - obviously not nearly as good as
>> redundant.  But if hot-pluggable then you can have a spare sitting on the
>> shelf and switch easily, probably without a screwdriver, thus replacement
>> involves significantly less down-time and could be done by a non-technical
>> person.
>
> Good point, but I don't think i've ever seen a hotswap powersupply cage
> that only holds 1 power supply.  most of them hold two.  Then, rather
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Some of the old Intel rack servers we have (SR2000's ?) are equiped with
only one swappable power supply. We have a stack of "cold spares" in case
one ever fails. (which has never happened, if we didn't have the spares
I assume they all would have failed ;-)

-Eric