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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (71928)	9/14/1999 10:39:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 1572767

Eric, How is manageability better with more boxes and copies of the OS to configure? Dan3 said: re: Manageability is better with fewer multiprocessor servers Fyi: Fewer multiprocessor servers means fewer boxes (and copies of OS) with multiple CPUs inside each. How does reliability go up with more points of failure? You can set up more boxes as a cluster to work in paralell. If for example a power supply of one of the boxes dies, the remaining boxes continue to work. But if you have a single multiprocessor server, if the same power supply (or any other single point of failure) dies, you are pretty much dead, your system is no longer available. So from reliability (or fault tolerance) point of view, the more points of failure the better, given there is a fail-over procedure in place. Joe