IBM Intelligent Bricks - - UNM Center for Advanced Research ...

Systems without on-going maintenance• Leave a failed brick in the system– Until convenient to replace, which may be never• Software must deal with failed brick without humanintervention• Architecture must ensure that a failed brick is forced off-line• Pulling the wrong RAID disk is a dominant cause of data loss• We presented this no-maintenance concept to ~70 customers– Overwhelming majority loves the concept– All want to have visibility into the system state• Note: Grid computing must deal with disappearing resources,tooARC External Website, Intelligent Bricks, 2005