RE: HE.net, Fremont-2 outage?

[Alex Rubenstein <alex () corp nac net>]

> Yup.  Related: "100% availability" is a marketing person's dream; it
> sounds good in theory but is unattainable in practice, and is a
> reliable sign of non-100%-reliability.

You are confusing two different things.

Availability != Reliability.

For instance, an airplane is designed to be 100% reliable, but much less available. To keep a 747 from not crashing 
(100% reliability) it needs significant downtime (not 100% available).



> And even for those who follow best practices...  You can inspect and
> maintain things until you're blue in the face.  One day a contractor
> will drop a wrench into a PDU or UPS or whatever and spectacular things
> will happen.  

That's were policies, procedures and methods come in (read: SAS70)


> Or a battery develops a strange fault.

Get more than one string, one more than one UPS, with monitoring. Batteries are NOT the Achilles heel everyone wants to 
make you believe they are.




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