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For those custom servers, I remember reading that Google did not bother unracking and disposing of them, but let the dead ones sit in the rack indefinitely. Th
by snowwrestler 4y ago
For those custom servers, I remember reading that Google did not bother unracking and disposing of them, but let the dead ones sit in the rack indefinitely.
They figured out that it was more efficient to have hardware techs spend 100% of their time provisioning new hardware, and just let their software detect the broken servers, power them down, and route the tasks to working servers.
- monocasa 4y agoAt some point the hyperscalers end up decommissioning their servers because of perf/watt concerns. I don't think they bother with single failures for the reasons you've stated, but they do decommission full sections of DCs once the wattage calculus no longer makes sense.