>>>>> It's time to switch hosts. I'm looking at the following: >>>>> >>>>> Dual Xeon E5-2690 >>>>> 32GB RAM >>>>> 4x SSD RAID10 >>>> >>>> If I make this 6x SSD RAID10 with redundant power supplies, what is my >>>> weakest link as far as hardware? If a CPU craps out, will the system >>>> keep running? >>> >>> Your weakest link is not having redundant power feeds. Two PSUs doesn't >>> help much when they both draw power from the same place :-) >> >> At Soft Layer redundant power supplies are actually powered by >> redundant power feeds. >> >>> Second is inadequate cooling in the data centre >> >> Easy to monitor though. >> > > True, it's easy to monitor. But that does not help you in case of > cooling. I had that case once a few years back in july. Air condition > _and_ backup air condition fell out in the offsite data center where we > had some server. > > I still have the munin image from that day. Almost 70° c hot hard drives > are not a pretty sight :-) > > And there's nothing you can do, except shutting down the server and wait > until the refrigeration engineers have fixed the air conditioning.
Nasty. It looks like you didn't shut down though. I use munin too. - Grant
