Bathtub curve. Defects emerge either very early on in the lifecycle of a system (or a batch of systems), or all at once toward the end of the systems's planned life.
I see more "system integrator oops'ed" errors than outright hardware failures at the beginning of a machine's life, to be honest... but you DO see the hardware failures. --e On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Mike Julian <[email protected]> wrote: > We constantly find memory, network, and hard drive failures very early on > after turning over to a customer. Sometimes as soon as we start to deploy an > OS/software to them. It happens *quite* often. > > > On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Edmund White <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Is it really necessary to burn-in modern hardware (that isn't Supermicro)? >> >> I come from the HP perspective and really don't do anything of that sort. >> What do you expect to catch during burn-in? >> http://serverfault.com/q/518239/13325 >> >> However, if you're using modern HP boxes (Gen8), you can run a diagnostic >> loop with the built-in Intelligent Provisioning tool (press F10) or just >> load the current HP Service Pack for ProLiant DVD/ISO (HP SPP). The latter >> is important because it brings all component firmware up to date and can >> allow you to run timed tests or a specific number of loops through the >> installed hardware. >> >> See: >> >> http://www8.hp.com/us/en/products/server-software/product-detail.html?oid=5104018#!tab=features >> >> -- >> Edmund White >> >> >> From: Mike Julian <[email protected]> >> Date: Thursday, January 30, 2014 at 8:12 AM >> To: LOPSA Discuss <[email protected]> >> >> Subject: [lopsa-discuss] Hardware burn-in tools >> >> Hey all, >> >> We're investigating options for doing hardware burn-ins on servers before >> we hand them off to customers, thanks to a long history of hardware failures >> within 24-72 hours of handing them over. >> >> We're an all-Dell shop, though we are also looking at moving to HP >> sometime soon-ish (leaving us with supporting both Dell and HP). >> >> Ideally, we'd love something that can easily be automated and is >> Linux-based. >> >> What tool recommendations do you have? >> >> -Mike > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
