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Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video]

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Re: Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video]

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Post by SulphurSmell »

I recall this fondly when it came out. I had a few racks of Sun servers at that time...and anyone I showed the video too were convinced it was bullshit. April Fools anyone? However, Brendan and Bryan know their onions...and all the naysayers had to pause and think a bit. It too crazy to believe...and too crazy to not believe. I miss this stuff.

Edit: This was done when everyone ran spinning media. I wonder how modern SSDs hold up?

Re: Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video]

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Post by bayindirh »

SulphurSmell wrote: post #2

I recall this fondly when it came out. I had a few racks of Sun servers at that time...and anyone I showed the video too were convinced it was bullshit. April Fools anyone? However, Brendan and Bryan know their onions...and all the naysayers had to pause and think a bit. It too crazy to believe...and too crazy to not believe. I miss this stuff. Edit: This was done when everyone ran spinning media. I wonder how modern…

This works. I tried this on a Sun ZFS7320 under synthetic load to utilize all disks.

We all laughed to the video, too.

Re: Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video]

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Post by jtwaleson »

Oh man. Once, when I was a young padawan doing maintenance by myself on one of our three racks in a colocation DC, I dropped a 1U server from about 2m/6ft high. It was scary as hell. While trying to grab it I hit the off button on one of the other servers, causing an outage for about 50 customers. What's more, it fell on the floor and just missed the SAN with the spinning disk array at the bottom of the rack. Everything was fine, including the fallen server, but shit, that was stupid. The vibration alone could have caused a lot of data corruption.
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