Server Hardware Lif Cycle

Life cycle of a server? How often to replace them?
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Eric S. Powell
Network Administrator
Hascal, Sjoholm & Co, P.S.

Meinolf
Thu Mar 27 15:51:19 PDT 2008

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
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> Life cycle of a server? How often to replace them?
>

EricPowell
Thu Mar 27 16:01:00 PDT 2008

Ok... I have a couple of HP G3's that are out of warranty - they run great
but still...Thank you
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Eric S. Powell
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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?
> >
>
>
>

Dave
Thu Mar 27 21:15:09 PDT 2008

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
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> Ok... I have a couple of HP G3's that are out of warranty - they run great
> but still...Thank you
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> 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?
>> >
>>
>>
>>

Hank
Mon Mar 31 08:13:32 PDT 2008

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...

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Regards,
Hank Arnold
Microsoft MVP
Windows Server - Directory Services