You're extremely lucky to endure only that amount of downtime or less per
year.  We've found that the larger our systems become, the more downtime we
seem to incur due to corner-case system aborts -- the pat answer is, "...
it's a timing problem"  :-(.  We still report better than 99% uptime, but I
fear that I see this shrinking.  We were down for an entire day not long
ago due to two back-to-back totally unrelated problems -- one
hardware-related, one caused by volume table corruption.

Lee Gunter          [log in to unmask]




From: Dirickson Steve <[log in to unmask]> on 09/14/98 11:10 AM

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Subject:  Re: And speaking of Benchmarks. . .




        <<According to my InformationWeek Daily email, "HP Guarantees 99.9%
Availability On Windows NT Systems". As in uptime, not how long it takes to
get one after you order it. While a good thing for our NT needs, I cannot
imagine this for the 3000. Unless you are trying to sell one. Now there's a
thought.>>


8 hours 46 minutes of unplanned downtime a year? Every year? I don't think
we've ever had a 3000 be down that much, even going back to the 58 ten
years
ago; three-nines uptime would be a big step backward.

Steve