On Tue, 20 Apr 2010, Tracy Reed wrote: > And who knows what config changes have been made that will cause the > machine or some service to fail to come up in the event of an > unexpected/unattended reboot.
Exactly. Too often companies confuse server reliability with high availability. If a company says they can't possibly take the server down[1] then they need HA because sooner or later it will come down whether they like it or not. If HA exists then individual nodes within a cluster can be taken down safely and rebooted/replaced or whatever. [1] I've heard this too often. Rob -- Email: [email protected] IRC: Solver Web: http://www.practicalsysadmin.com Open Source: The revolution that silently changed the world _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
