up_the_irons2: what's the remote hands fee for the metal servers? $75/hr?
Out of curiosity JC_Denton what kind of remote hands do you need that IPMI isn't providing? Or if it's about reconfiguring the machine / replacing hardware, that would be normal support and not "remote hands" I'd imagine.
i'm in a blade and one of the custom SSDs i originally sent is starting to die
so i need to send a replacement, initiate a clone, and swap
i'll eventually throw in a ticket to inquire formally, but i figured i'd see about poking here first
Ah, self-provided drives, a real edge-case then.
yep
even if they weren't, it'd still be a bind cause i'd still need to do the copy
couldn't just replace with a blank disc
*disk
the blade being limited to two slots complicates that
especially since i have them LVM'd together
Well best of luck with the migration
thanks
so the SSD is reading but not writing or such/
that seems like the kind of thing that requires more than basic remote hands disk swap.
raid simplifies that kind of thing cos someone just swap in/out the disk
mercutio: it's overall smart status is a pass, but it's griping about raw_read_rate errors
it's twin has a 0 for that attrib
so realistically, the work would be hooking a new one of the same model in via usb, so i can remote boot it into a rescue and do some dd work
and then when that's done, swapping said disk and rebooting
no raid1/mirror? you are brave :D
SSDs weren't big enough / cheap enough at the time
hourly backups are pretty solid
so i'm not sweating too much
wishing i was on one of the 4 slotters tho, lol
send 2x large SSD now and rebuild the server with raid 1 :) restore from backups
JC_Denton: ahh yeh, probably is best just emailing support@ then and seeing if they can stick in via usb
was honestly hoping there'd be some higher spec'd metal out there, but guessing Thunder is taking priority there
there are some servers with 4 slots
was more thinking proc
ah ok
cpu haven't really gone up in speed much for servers
most cpu developments happen for cellphones atm :)
you can do e5s to do more ram