[cisco-voip] MCS-7816-H3 disk failure

[Jonathan Charles]

Well, a single drive system for a mission critical application seems silly.

However.

The 7816 is light years ahead of the 7815-I it replaced.

That thing was a complete turd.



Jonathan

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 9:35 AM, Jason Aarons (US) <
jason.aarons at us.didata.com> wrote:

>  We don't really sell or recommend the 7816. But a customer bought one 3rdparty and asked us to set it up and the drive failed.
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> The MCS-7816-H3 has a single 160GB SATA drive.  I'm a little confused by
> this statement "if a drive fails you can schedule server down time".  The
> drive did fail and the server is useless so their down time wasn't
> "scheduled", more like instant.  Am I missing something? How is a single
> drive a benefit?
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> The customer sent an email asking me why the 7816-H3 RAID array wasn't
> setup properly when the drive failed.  Yet it has a single drive…..I think I
> need to educate them as the 3rd party they bought it from didn't appear to
> tell them it has a single drive.
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> http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/voicesw/ps6790/ps5748/ps378/ps7301/product_data_sheet0900aecd805efb99.html
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> *Key Features and Benefits*
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> *Serviceability*
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> Serviceable SATA Disk Drives
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> The Cisco MCS 7816-H3 is configured with one 160-GB Serial Advanced
> Technology Attachment (SATA) "cold-pluggable" disk drive, which is
> accessible through openings in the front bezel of the server. If a drive
> fails, you can schedule server downtime, power down the server, and replace
> the failed SATA drive by simply removing it (each drive is equipped with a
> front latch that positively mates the drive to the server) and replacing it
> with an unconfigured spare drive.
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