Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers
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Re: Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers
#2I hate to tell them, they don't need a $100k robot to power cycle a server: remote power resets are a common feature in enterprise PDUs.
But if ya wanna robot to press a chassis button...
Re: Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers
#3so the robots will end up making things worse and it'll still require on site calls for maintenance. sounds like money well spent, mark.
Re: Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers
#4so the robots will end up making things worse and it'll still require on site calls for maintenance. sounds like money well spent, mark.
I've had situations where I wished there was a robot I could get to plug in a cable.
The question with this and other efforts is: will this be used to enhance or maintain quality or will it be allowed to reduce costs and whatever quality level arises is the new acceptable?
Robot pizza that made Michelin level pizza would be welcomed. If we're just supposed to eat whatever crap tier pizza the robot owner can manage, why would anyone bother?
Re: Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers
#5I hate to tell them, they don't need a $100k robot to power cycle a server: remote power resets are a common feature in enterprise PDUs. But if ya wanna robot to press a chassis button...
Meta doesn't use enterprise equipment (for example the "PDU" is a passive DC bus bar); they've chosen to make a tradeoff between capex and service cost.
Re: Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers
#6I hate to tell them, they don't need a $100k robot to power cycle a server: remote power resets are a common feature in enterprise PDUs. But if ya wanna robot to press a chassis button...
Meta doesn't use enterprise equipment (for example the "PDU" is a passive DC bus bar); they've chosen to make a tradeoff between capex and service cost.
So it has no remote power reset functionality?
Re: Meta's Push to Put Robots to Work in Data Centers
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Meta doesn't use enterprise equipment (for example the "PDU" is a passive DC bus bar); they've chosen to make a tradeoff between capex and service cost.
So it has no remote power reset functionality?
They have BMCs in each server but if the BMC doesn't respond they are probably using humans to physically unplug the sled.