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Originally posted by Tim Walsh
I have to agree with most of what's said here. We(a university of 15,000 students) run almost exclusively dell and sun machines not just because of their reliability but also their support. Both companies provide 4 hour onsite service, all of our major systems are redundant with SAN storage, etc, etc. The biggest problem we're running into currently is thermal. We've been using one of our two machines rooms for 30 years and our A/C when on generator power is marginal. It's one thing to think about when designing a datacenter.. if the power goes out and you go to UPS/Generator will your A/C units keep up?
Not to hijack the thread, but what is everyone using in their major data centers for monitoring? We've been on BMC Patrol for the last year.
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IBM had issues with cooling in the centers for a different reason, the raised floor areas in Boulder were installed in the 60's. By the 2000's we had so much copper under the floor it was reducing airflow. We suggested getting bids from contractors to help us clean up these football field sized under floor areas, and no one would take the job (too much risk involved disturbing production systems). Before I left the plan to vacate the raised floors and demo them, what a mess.
As far as data center monitoring tools, we use ECM by Configuresoft, SiteScope, Landesk, a few top secret internal jobs that our command centers use, MOM, and I can't remember what we use on the Sun/Unix/Linux/AIX side. (I'm a Windows Architect)