Ibm P8 Server End Of Life

[Channing Rupnick]

Whendesigning electronic systems, you design them with an expected lifetime. You then choose components that will result in (usually) 90-99% of the systems reaching that lifetime without failure. If you need a component with a MTBF of 1,000,000 hours, you buy the least-expensive component that meets that requirement.

If a manufacturer sells crap to a system maker, chances are good they are not going to get repeat business. There is no incentive for the component manufacturer to build an assembly line to create crappy capacitors or to sell bad stock.

The real question is how long can a server economically be sensible. Servers cost money to run (electricity cooling, etc). As servers get old, they get relatively worse/. They also stop having any financial value.

After 10 years, there can be a massive varience in reliability, due to power quality, heat, even humidity.

If you run your server off a good UPS and keep the heat and humidity in check, then I only see the HDD as the primary weekness

Dell does not make any products they just make stickers. You are normally running Intel/WD/Nvidia with a pretty Dell label. That being said MTBF is just an advice area. As SSD runs longer MTBF may extend it may not it is a Mean. So there are some smaller some larger however the Mean is X. That being said having a good backup and shutting down the system to replace the drives, if you plan well you should be able to pull it off in 30. With how old these systems are and solid you are talking about you could even possibly virtualize these systems bring up the image, sync it. Shut down the physical do upgrade maint swap drives, blow out fans, check any plastic connectors for cracks and breakages, replace power supply if required. After the maint cycle bring the physical back up and resync your data and you will be good to go. It would be a nice practice to have just incase you get hit by a virus that wipes your servers.

A company that may lose $20,000/Hr due to downtime has a much lower risk tolerance than a company that loses $200/Hr, therefor the company with the larger risk tends to mitigate that risk, while the lower risk company does not.

The oldest server I have seen still running was a Dell purchased in 2006, it has had disks replaced a few times and the RAM was changed, but other than that it still does what it needs to do and just runs older legacy HR software to pull reports on payslips from 5+ years.

@Nichtraucher

Can you post the url of the Nextcloud instance e.g. After the TLD cloud, you can add /status.php to get the version. E.g. For this url i get the version Nextcloud 23.0.7. And yes Nextlcoud 23 is End of Life look here.

Maybe you must move manually. Please read this article at the position End of life free01.thegood.cloud. Maybe it is the same for your Nextcloud server but there is only no article yet.

Providers should already plan their updates so that they never reach End of Life. But it must also be said that the release cycles are short and the supported releases in the community variant are few.

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OEMs introduce new technological innovations regularly, but you need to consider if the cost of a refresh or upgrade is in your best interest. While servers do have a legitimate end-of-life date, the time does not need to be determined by OEMs. Consistent maintenance can extend the life of last-generation hardware for the benefit of your data center and your organization. Pre-owned and refurbished servers and other hardware can continue their life cycle long past the suggested time of 3, 5, or 10 years.

Server state signifies the specific condition of a server in the life cycle management. System administrators use the server state information to plan the administration tasks related to the application services. You can get the server state using Administration Console or command prompt scripts.

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The only life cycle command that causes a server instance to enter the STANDBY state and remain in that state is the Start in Standby command. A server instance transitions through the STANDBY state when you issue a Start or a Start in Admin command.

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