Hot Swap Ram for Servers?????

[LxMxFxD3]

I just got a box setup and they put the wrong amount of ram in it. They can't put the other 1GB in it till tuesday cuz of the holiday - but they're telling me no downtime cuz the box is hotswapable with ram. Meaning, no need to power down to put in the new ram.

Is this possible? I almost think they're lying to me....

If its for real thats awesome... but someone please verify. google turned up nothing for me

 

[Bluestealth]

Doing a google search myself it appears that if you have a very recent operating system, and a specialized server board you "should" be able to hot-swap memory. Although it seems this feature seems rare, you might actually have it. Someone could probably figure it out if you posted what the server is

 

[ktwebb]

They? I guess someone manages/administers and/or hosts your server(s) and applications?

Yes, it is for real. As bluestealth mentioned, a simple google search would have answered your question as well.

 

[Nothinman]

High end boxes have had hotswap everything for a while now, but as Bluestealth says you need an OS that supports it. Just plugging in a new CPU won't do you any good if you still have to reboot the OS to enable the new CPU.

 

[Rilex]

On the Windows side, you'd need to be running 2003 Enterprise (or R2 Enterprise) or DataCenter.

 

[spidey07]

Yes...real "servers" have hot swap everything and rarely if ever need to be brought down.

 

[Nothinman]

I don't know if I'd go quite that far, HP, Dell, etc sell a lot of 'real' servers that only have hotswap PCI/PCI-Express. Probably mostly because if you're running Windows you need to buy 2003 Enterprise and the hotswap CPU support in Linux is still pretty new and I'm not sure if it does hotswap memory yet.