A customer turns on the first T5120
In the Early Access team we are all engineers and you can probably imagine how it feels to experiment with a new toy that hardly anyone else has seen yet. It's like sending a kid to the candy store. When the system arrived at the customer site, the system engineer called to let us know that he was about to pick up the box in the lobby. My task was to monitor the setup of the T5120 and to take notes, so I stayed on the phone and listened to the live action. He unpacked the box and plugged in the power cord but when he connected his laptop to the service processor of the T5120 to get it fired up, the system wouldn't respond.
Uh-oh. What to do now?
I thought about all the debate that would now ensue to try to wake up the system. But instead the system engineer's instinctive reaction was to grab a different Ethernet cable and plug it in. Et voilà! The service processor responded to his inputs.
That was the only surprise and soon after going through the boot process, the T5120 showed all 64 threads were alive. The system was ready to be loaded with applications for testing.
Great! That's all the Early Access team wanted. We were ready to ship boxes to more customers.
