Today marks a very sad day. Last night, we experienced several extended power outages. I’m saddened to say that “Nattie”, my HP DL380 RedHat ES4 Server, finally lost power.
No, she is O.K. now, and is back up and running. I am saddened because this server had been up for 826 days and had been a braggin’ point for me quite sometime. Sure, I’ve seen servers that have been up longer –but never has a machine at one of my “at home” Data Centers /Labs been up this long.
She was connected with redundant power supplies, with each one going to a separate commercial UPS, and each of those going to separate breakers, with each of those going to separate sides of the incoming 220 service. There wasn’t much else I could have done to keep Nattie’s power redundant — short of a second power company feed. 
Right now, I am at the whim of the batteries in the UPS which surprisingly kept everything (several other servers, tape library, 4 switches, VPN Concentrator, Secure Computing Firewall, Backup Server, etc.) on for about an hour. I’m definitely thinking a whole-house generator is going to be on my shopping list in the future!
10:09:03 up 800 days, 9:51, 3 users, load average: 0.33, 0.76, 0.62
(Uptime from July 13th, 2009, when I celebrated 800 days)
Well, at least now I have a good opportunity to add some additional memory and make a few other hardware changes!
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