Wish we could renew some of our servers... some are nearing the 10 year mark. We had a Dell PowerEdge that was retired after 12 years of service without any major issues.
_____________________________ Cameron Cooper System Administrator | CompTIA A+ Certified Aurico Reports, Inc Phone: 847-890-4021 | Fax: 847-255-1896 ccoo...@aurico.com | www.aurico.com From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2010 11:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT ? Server ROI - Reuse ? It really depends, we have "mission critical" apps running on servers that are 4+ years old. Extended service contracts have been purchased from mfg (HP) for those. FWIW, I've had HP/Compaq servers that have run until we shut them down for over 10 years with little more than a power supply being replaced. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Jeremy Anderson <jer...@mapiadmin.net> wrote: I am not even sure what the subject of this should be. I have a server, it's about 3 years old, the warranty expires in 15 days. It runs a %mission critical App%. This App is going to be replaced with %new mission critical app%. This server meets the hardware requirements for %new app% just fine. (it does require a BIOS update) Its been a stable and reliable server for the last 3 years. I can purchase an extended warranty for around $500, or I can purchase a new server for around $4500.00. The bean counters say, buy the warranty, run %new app% on it, life is good and we save 4 grand. My instinct is that this is a horrible idea, and we should just buy a new server. If we run %new app% on %old server% we will be completely wiping and reloading the OS. My question for everyone here is: How do I convince the bean counters that this is a bad idea. Or, is it not a bad idea, and is a 3 year old server not really that old? How do I justify spending 4k on a server when technically we have a perfectly good server sitting there to be reused? Am I just getting distracted by bright shiny things? %NewApp% is mission critical. If %NewApp% is down, the company is dead in the water. To put this in prospective however, %NewApp% will not be redundant, or even highly available and we are not even considering those options. Think of %newApp% like an Exchange server, for a company that relies on Email for all their communication. And yes, I know %newapp% should be clustered or highly available, but its not going to happen. Does this email make sense? Any help, or insight on the matter would be appreciated. Thanks Jeremy -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke Sent from Keller, TX, United States ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
