Eric Shubert wrote:
Nice piece, Ben. I might add that with a reduction in hardware comes an increase in reliability.
To some degree, anyway... In N+1 clustering solutions, more hardware leads to better stability. I once had two servers with mission-critical services on them both throw hard drive fits one night(they had 2x scsi drives, but not RAIDED as we were using one exclusively for mail queue IO), so I simply limped them along long enough to drain their queues and halted them, dealing with them the next afternoon...
I worked on a server some time ago that had SCSI drives which had a MTBF of 36 years. The server had 72 of them. One failed every 6 months, like clockwork.
I had a RAID under my control that had not been powered down in 5 years. When we finally did, half the drives did not spin back up :)
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