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Questions tagged [lifecycle]

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Should servers be turned off at night?

There is a server that is used from 4:30 am in the morning until ~ 22:00. Should it be turned off? I think that it is a server and that it won't have a problem to stay on, but serious professors are telling me that it is dangerous and that HD can…
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Replacing Hard Drives

I was wondering if it is a good idea to replace a hard drive in a (fairly) system-critical database server after a certain number of years of use, before it dies. For example, I was thinking of replacing a hard drive after 3 years of use. Since I…
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Fastest time to get an EC2 instance running

I am considering moving from a VPS to EC2. EC2 is elastic and so is its pricing; I could boot my instance on demand, then let it shut down if it isn't active by the end of some hourly period. How much time does that process take? Assume a micro…
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How do SSD fail near end of life?

Let's say a MLC SSD has lasted a very long time and the first cell has hit its last erase cycle and refuses to erase. What happens after that? Does the controller detect that as a bad block and moves to the next one and tries to erase that instead?…
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Account management tools supporting self-service registration and email verification?

I work in a university environment that has in the past offered services almost exclusively to university affiliates who already have "formal" accounts in central user database. We are increasingly offering services to outside collaborators (hosted…
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Active Directory New User Workflow

I work in a small organization that uses a single file & print server with an Active Directory domain for user management. The office admin who inducts new people is non-technical and generally creates the AD user account because there is no…
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Swapping older Samsung Enterprise SSD for Consumer SSD (EVO 850) in Dell PowerEdge R820 server in RAID 5 configuration?

I work for a nonprofit organization that contracts with a local IT outfit. We are currently using three enterprise SSD drives in our Dell PowerEdge R820 rig, set up in a RAID 5 configuration. We have been having discussions about upping our capacity…
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Why EBS keeps waiting for terminated instances?

Why EBS keeps waiting for terminated instances? 2016-03-02 01:41:22 UTC+0100 INFO Still waiting for the following 3 instances to become healthy: [i-1b5e9691, i-7f5c94f5, i-5d5e96d7]. Only one instance is still active and passes the load…
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Dell R710 LifeCycle and iDRAC6 bad firmware flash

I have an R710 server that I need help with. Earlier today I wanted to update my BIOS and LifeCycle controller. I tried through the F10 System manager, but because my LifeCycle controller and iDRAC were low versions, I had to update those first. I…
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LTO-4 tape shelf life estimation?

LTO tapes, Maxell in this case, are often marketed as having 30 years or more shelf life when stored under "optimal conditions" Is there a way to get a good estimation to the shelf life, given parameters such as relative humidity and temperature…
user38754
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ECR Lifecycle Policy to exclude certain tags

Is there a way to exclude certain tags/images from a cleanup policy? E.g. say I have a repository with images and the related SHAs for the Pull Request which triggered their creation. When these are approved for deployment to an environment the…
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If I already have files in an S3 bucket in the Glacier storage class, what happens if I apply a bucket policy to move to Glacier after 1 day?

We have a pre-existing S3 bucket that we are looking to add a lifecycle policy to in order to move large files in S3 standard to Glacier. The bucket already contains items with the Glacier storage class (changed manually via console). How does the…
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Is there a way to get Dell's lifecycle controller status from commandline?

Is there a way to get Dell's LifeCycle Controller status from command line? For instance, there's a way to schedule BIOS configuration, but there's no way to check afterwards whether those tasks have been applied. Is there a way to use omreport or…
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Should I turn off hybrid server with GPU on IDLE?

There is a server with 2 CPUs (Intel Xeon E5-2670, Sandy Bridge) and 1 AMD GPU (Tahiti XT Radeon HD 7970). There are also SSD (system and executable files) and HDD (heavy data) that connected to this server. Sometimes server works under high load…
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Possible to have AWS take a snapshot of a spot instance just prior to it's unplanned termination?

I've setup a lifecycle manager to reboot a spot instance and create an AMI of the instance once every 24 hours. It would be ideal if it could do the same just prior to an unplanned termination event. Is this possible?
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