IBM Server start-up time

[littlelittle]

Hi dear experts,

I am glad to join this wonderful forum. I need to find some technical informations about IBM server~

I have a AIX 5L running on IBM p650 server(with custom system), and we need it can take less than 5 minutes from power-off to everything functional, but we can't get it.

Could anyone help telling me some informations of any type of servers which can start up faster than p650 or other workarounds?

Thx for your help~

Jiro(Taiwan)

 

[unixfreak]

I don't think you're supposed to turn them off...

Are you being serious?

In the old days you could set a "Fast boot" option, would bring start-up time down from 30 to 10 minutes or something. The server does health checks and stuff when starting up. It's for your own good...

 

[mrn]

Nah It's a valid question.

The area where I see most problems is with the NFS timeout/retry. You might also want to investigate DNS and reverse lookup.

Mike

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."

 

[littlelittle]

Thx unixfreak^^

We do start up those boxes from power-off state in order to minimize the recover time after the power black-out.

Now we need 10 to 15 minutes to complete this process.

That's why I want to know is there any type of servers with the same performance can achieve this objective.