Hardware Requirements for Self-Maintaining Servers
Redundant components that fail fast
- no single point of failure anywhere
Tightly-integrated device monitoring
- low-level HW diagnostics to detect impending failure
- device “health,” performance data, access patterns, environmental info, ...
Automatic preventive maintenance
- predictive failure analysis based on diagnostic data
- continual “scrubbing” and in situ stress testing of all components, new and old
Self-characterizing, plug-and-play hardware