Record-breaking uptime is over – 1003 days

Please, a moment of silence, for one of longest uptimes for a actively used server.

When we started many years ago and moved into an office, our first server was a white-box desktop. We scrambled to build it out of components we had… some memory from here, a motherboard from over there, and hard drives (software RAID) from who knows what. It was by no means anything comparable to our current arsenal made out of stacks of PowerEdge servers running vSphere. Anyway, we have moved a few times and it has faithfully followed us. It has occupied our current location for about 3 years.

The other day, it got jealous. Well actually, I think there was a sharp voltage drop when we plugged a 4U PowerEdge server into the UPS it was sharing. The high-quality components it’s made out of apparently showed their true colors this time causing …wait for it…. a reboot!

So now we’re back to 0… it’ll be a long journey. No one has committed to upgrading the critical software it holds, so it won’t be decommissioned anytime soon.

See you again in 2.747945205479452 years.

Before and After the 4U server was plugged into the UPS. Ouch!

BEFORE 4U PowerEdge
LINEV    : 117.0 Volts
LOADPCT  :  23.9 Percent Load Capacity
BCHARGE  : 100.0 Percent
TIMELEFT :  85.0 Minutes
LASTXFER : Automatic or explicit self test

AFTER 4U PowerEdge
LINEV    : 113.7 Volts
LOADPCT  :  50.4 Percent Load Capacity
BCHARGE  : 100.0 Percent
TIMELEFT :  39.0 Minutes
LASTXFER : Unacceptable line voltage changes