Re: Rack rails on network equipment

[Doug McIntyre <merlyn () geeks org>]

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.