I actually did suggest using Dell to do hardware testing before shipping to us, but everyone is much more comfortable with being able to do a full barrage of tests ourselves.
On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 9:25 AM, Doug Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > The tool is certainly useful, but have you also thought about having Dell > (or HP) integration service doing the burn-in for you before delivery? We > have our integrator run a lot of tests before shipping us a rack of > machines using off the shelf tools that stress memory and CPU in > particular. Memtest is one such that is semi-obvious, but also Linpack > immediately comes to mind as a general purpose CPU and memory stresser. You > can also use the results of the test to validate conformance to baseline. > It is possible for memory to seem otherwise fine but perform 20% slower > without any ECC errors. We've seen occassional weird cases like that. Of > course, this all works better when you are getting some number of machines > at a time vs a singleton. For singletons, the integration and testing > overhead is very high because they have to unbox and rebox. > > This is a decent general purpose test suite. You could do something like > specify > "Integrator shall run 24 hours of http://icl.cs.utk.edu/hpc/ achieving > CPU throughput no less than <x> and memory bandwidth no less than <y>" > > Tests like that are good for catching early failures. Linpack really heats > up a system. > > > > Sent from my android device. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Julian <[email protected]> > To: LOPSA Discuss <[email protected]> > Sent: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 9:13 AM > Subject: [lopsa-discuss] Hardware burn-in tools > > Hey all, > > We're investigating options for doing hardware burn-ins on servers before > we hand them off to customers, thanks to a long history of hardware > failures within 24-72 hours of handing them over. > > We're an all-Dell shop, though we are also looking at moving to HP > sometime soon-ish (leaving us with supporting both Dell and HP). > > Ideally, we'd love something that can easily be automated and is > Linux-based. > > What tool recommendations do you have? > > -Mike >
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