[geeks] Sun SSP monkeying - any SSP 'experts' about?

[Stefan Molnar]

That is why the ft1800 was built.  Two e450 underclocked and synced in 
hardware by one clock sync.  Each node ran in lock step with the other.

On Tue, 9 Sep 2014, Lionel Peterson wrote:

> Five Nines is a very, very expensive target. Anyone concerned with providing
> five noes level service wouldn't rely on a single instance server to meet that
> need.
>
> Five nines is what, less than an hour of downtime a year?
>
> I once had a director tell me she 'NEEDED' 15 minute cutover time in our
> disaster recovery plan - I pointed at the datacenter and said that means we
> have to duplicate the hardware there, and the operations staff, since our hot
> site was 90 minutes away.
>
> She didn't understand why it was so expensive.
>
> Lionel
>
>> On Sep 8, 2014, at 9:07 PM, Stefan Molnar <stefan at csudsu.com> wrote:
>>
>> Just try to boot a Netra ft 1800. That took ages.  Last I touched one it
> took
>> longer to boot than what was allowed by the "Five Nines" of uptime.
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