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Re:Next-Generation IBM POWER10 Processor by lgl on Monday August 17, 2020 @09:32AM (#24187034)
> My downtime is measured in hours per year (...)

This is probably a bit picky since you don't mention what those machines do, but that's not even "four nines" in the high-availability scale. I'm not sure that's something to boast about for a Fortune 500 company or any kind of praise for the IBM series. Maybe you meant hours over the last seven years?

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Re:Next-Generation IBM POWER10 Processor by jjnoakes on Monday August 17, 2020 @10:22AM (#24187506)
Not op but it sounded like it was scheduled downtime so perhaps it was meant as a per-system number and either redundancy kept the availability higher or the service wasn't needed when downtime was scheduled (overnight, weekends, etc)
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Re:Next-Generation IBM POWER10 Processor by znpy on Monday August 17, 2020 @03:53PM (#24191234)
Planned and scheduled downtime usually doesn't count against SLO/SLA.

If the "hours per year" is true, they're actually achieving 100% uptime.

Fucking big deal, if you ask me.

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