Guest Eric Powell Posted March 27, 2008 Posted March 27, 2008 Life cycle of a server? How often to replace them? -- Eric S. Powell Network Administrator Hascal, Sjoholm & Co, P.S.
Guest Meinolf Weber Posted March 27, 2008 Posted March 27, 2008 Re: Server Hardware Lif Cycle Hello Eric, We change between 3 and 5 years depending on the workload but going more and more down to 3 years. Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > Life cycle of a server? How often to replace them? >
Guest Eric Powell Posted March 27, 2008 Posted March 27, 2008 Re: Server Hardware Lif Cycle Ok... I have a couple of HP G3's that are out of warranty - they run great but still...Thank you -- Eric S. Powell Network Administrator Hascal, Sjoholm & Co, P.S. "Meinolf Weber" wrote: > Hello Eric, > > We change between 3 and 5 years depending on the workload but going more > and more down to 3 years. > > Best regards > > Meinolf Weber > Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers > no rights. > ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups > ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > > > Life cycle of a server? How often to replace them? > > > > >
Guest Meinolf Weber Posted March 27, 2008 Posted March 27, 2008 Re: Server Hardware Lif Cycle Hello Eric, We also have some old Compaq servers from year 2000 running but........ :-) Best regards Meinolf Weber Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm > Ok... I have a couple of HP G3's that are out of warranty - they run > great but still...Thank you > > "Meinolf Weber" wrote: > >> Hello Eric, >> >> We change between 3 and 5 years depending on the workload but going >> more and more down to 3 years. >> >> Best regards >> >> Meinolf Weber >> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and >> confers >> no rights. >> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups >> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm >>> Life cycle of a server? How often to replace them? >>>
Guest Dave Harry Posted March 28, 2008 Posted March 28, 2008 Re: Server Hardware Lif Cycle I had a white box server that ran from 1994 to 2003. Those HP things are like rocks. They'll go for ages. "Eric Powell" <EricPowell@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:79C2957D-137D-44A8-B39A-9480F48B7D17@microsoft.com... > Ok... I have a couple of HP G3's that are out of warranty - they run great > but still...Thank you > -- > Eric S. Powell > Network Administrator > Hascal, Sjoholm & Co, P.S. > > > "Meinolf Weber" wrote: > >> Hello Eric, >> >> We change between 3 and 5 years depending on the workload but going more >> and more down to 3 years. >> >> Best regards >> >> Meinolf Weber >> Disclaimer: This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and >> confers >> no rights. >> ** Please do NOT email, only reply to Newsgroups >> ** HELP us help YOU!!! http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/mul_crss.htm >> >> > Life cycle of a server? How often to replace them? >> > >> >> >>
Guest Hank Arnold (MVP) Posted March 31, 2008 Posted March 31, 2008 Re: Server Hardware Lif Cycle Eric Powell wrote: > Life cycle of a server? How often to replace them? Standard cycle is 3 to 5 years. Often, though, it can depend heavily on financial, not technical issues. If you have to run one past it's prime (and all of have), you should make sure that you have a backup/redundancy/disaster recovery process in place. Also, you should stock critical spare parts if it is out of warrantee (or service contract has expired). Having VMWare set up can save your bacon. Whatever you do, practice it to make sure you know what to do (and that it works). I've had servers just up and die on me (they were past the recommended lifetime). Doing these things can keep the impact & downtime to a minimum... -- Regards, Hank Arnold Microsoft MVP Windows Server - Directory Services
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