Pardon my ignorance, but what the heck does a "9" refer too?
Is it a UPS, rack, floor space, circuit...
Thanks in advance
-leo
-----Original Message-----
From:
Lionel Lauer [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 10:54 AM
To: Andrew Bangs
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: availability and resiliency
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 17:39:04 +0100, Andrew Bangs
<[email protected]>
wrote:
>
>On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at
02:39:40PM -0600, Irwin Lazar wrote:
>> Hi
all,
>> Does anyone know if a template exists
for what it takes to provide 5 9's of
>>
availability, 4 9's etc.for Internet data centers? Specifically I'm
looking
>> for something that would say "if
you want 5 9's of availability, here's what
>>
you need to do", and so on.
>
>For 5 9s you need:
>
>1) Lots of money
>2) Lots of
clue
>3) Lots of luck
>4) Lots of balls
>
>You can do 4 9s with any 3 of the above.
Too true.
But you forgot to include 'halfway-clued management' -
without that you
haven't got a hope in hell of even
getting three 9's. ;)
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