Why about thinks like the Cisco 4500 switch series that are almost as long as a 1u server. But yet only has mounts for a relay type rack.
As far as boot times, try a Asr920. Wait 15 minutes and decide if it’s time to power cycle again or wait 5 more minutes Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 25, 2021, at 5:22 PM, Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com> wrote: > > >> On 9/25/21 2:08 PM, Jay Hennigan wrote: >>> On 9/25/21 13:55, Baldur Norddahl wrote: >>> >>> My personal itch is how new equipment seems to have even worse boot time >>> than previous generations. I am currently installing juniper acx710 and >>> while they are nice, they also make me wait 15 minutes to boot. This is a >>> tremendous waste of time during installation. I can not leave the site >>> without verification and typically I also have some tasks to do after boot. >>> >>> Besides if you have a crash or power interruption, the customers are not >>> happy to wait additionally 15 minutes to get online again. >> >> Switches in particular have a lot of ASICs that need to be loaded on boot. >> This takes time and they're really not optimized for speed on a process that >> occurs once. > > It doesn't seem like it would take too many reboots to really mess with your > reliability numbers for uptime. And what on earth are the developers doing > with that kind of debug cycle time? > > Mike >
