On Fri, 14 May 2004, James3678 wrote:

> My local sun rep quoted me two of these servers recently, but was concerned
> about the non-redundant power supply. Does this strike anyone as a single

Yes.

> point of failure? What risks would there be in using this in an enterprise
> datacenter? Could they be mitigated?

The risk is obvious: is the PSU loses its magic smoke, that machine
is dead.

> We typically plug a dual power supply system into two electric circuits. We
> could plug each server into different circuits, but is that mitigating risk
> or sticking my head in the sand?

The latter. Using two circuits guards against one of those circuits
going boom, but it doen't do anything about the PSUs in individual
machines.

> Any ideas or thoughts appreciated.

If being without a SPF is important to you, the V20z is not the
machine for you. I think the V240 is the smallest dual PSU machine
from Sun.

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