On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 06:41:01PM -0400, Mark Hahn wrote: >> You don't have your own spares kit? For big clusters like yours, it >> doesn't cost much. > > could be we don't know how to ask; I'm not aware of HP actually offering > such a kit. or how much we'd be willing to pay.
Well, I always buy a couple of extra nodes, and of course some extra disks. That way most failures have spares at hand, and then you can on-site or depot repair at your leisure. For the less common failures it costs more to have parts, but for my current business I have an extra of everything: switches, routers, PDUs, yadda yadda, at each of my sites. (Anyone else notice that tribe.net was down for days 'waiting for a spare part'? Must have been something they couldn't get at Fry's...) -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
