• cordlesslamp@lemmy.today
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    4 months ago

    I’m curious, does a 3 minutes power down to replace a RAM stick is that much of a deal in enterprise server that they need to invented a whole new technology just for that?

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        4 months ago

        The surplus enterprise hardware I have in my homelab takes 3 minutes to just get to BIOS

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      4 months ago

      Yes. Server boot times are long. Enterprise level NICs and hard drive controllers do a lot of checking at startup.

      Historically, there were Sun servers that could hot swap CPUs. X86 can’t do that, though.

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        Many that weren’t based on x86 microcompters could do this: Tandem, I mean, Compaq, I mean HP NonStop machines, Sun Ultra Enterprise as you mentioned, IBM s390 and System-Z, several HPUX systems, I’m sure there’s others.

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      First of all, yeah. In enterprise, 1000 transactions per second can be a requirement. Second, enterprise servers take longer to spool up than 3 minutes.