[geeks] Sun-HOWTO

[Peter L. Wargo]

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> They don't support hotswapping everything?  My understanding is that with
> IBMs it is traditional to have hotspare machines only if one is offsite or
> it is used for life critical applications.  And zServers seem to be what
> Sun is targetting.

Hard to hotswap a centerplane, though the SF15K's can degrade on the fly
to double-pumped to accomodate a failed ASIC.  Also, it has redundant
clock sources, etc.  But, some places like to have full mirroring of a
system...

-Pete