27 Sep
2021
27 Sep
'21
1:29 p.m.
On Sat, Sep 25, 2021 at 12:48:38PM -0700, Andrey Khomyakov wrote:
We operate over 1000 switches in our data centers, and hardware failures that require a switch swap are common enough where the speed of swap starts to matter to some extent. We probably swap a switch or two a month. ...
This level of failure surprises me. While I can't say I have 1000 switches, I do have hundreds of switches, and I can think of a failure of only one or two in at least 15 years of operation. They tend to be pretty reliable, and have to be swapped out for EOL more than anything.