I work for a major site in that colo and it was only a partial outage. Our site was unaffected by the outage, thank (insert deity here) for small favors. Can't say the same for the office downtown on Market street though. We had the power cycle six times on us. By the time the second outage hit, I was telling managers to shut down and send people home. When asked why, I explained that the machines not ups's (grammar?) ran the risk of corrupting the local data on the disks thus causing greater downtime later. They agreed and sent everyone home.
After the power stabilized, I found that the fire damper in the cold air feed to our local server room was stuck shut. So I had to call maintenance to release the thing from it's automated motor (which blew out because of the power cycling).
Also found out that the ups protecting the card key access systems was dead so had to replace that.
Lessons learned:
1.) Get minimal ups protection for all user's machines, it's worth it in the long run against corrupted disks and fewer support calls.
2.) Get regular, extensive checkups on your critical ac systems and check all emergency dampers at least once a year.
3.) Get a policy in place for standard operating procedures for these types of events and put them into practice.
My amount of fallout was minimal, but could have been much worse.
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Anybody been using it?
I've never given serious thought to designing an intercontinental ballistic mp3......hmmmmmmm.
So..........we may have interstellar bags of holding?
I work for a major site in that colo and it was only a partial outage. Our site was unaffected by the outage, thank (insert deity here) for small favors. Can't say the same for the office downtown on Market street though. We had the power cycle six times on us. By the time the second outage hit, I was telling managers to shut down and send people home. When asked why, I explained that the machines not ups's (grammar?) ran the risk of corrupting the local data on the disks thus causing greater downtime later. They agreed and sent everyone home. After the power stabilized, I found that the fire damper in the cold air feed to our local server room was stuck shut. So I had to call maintenance to release the thing from it's automated motor (which blew out because of the power cycling). Also found out that the ups protecting the card key access systems was dead so had to replace that. Lessons learned: 1.) Get minimal ups protection for all user's machines, it's worth it in the long run against corrupted disks and fewer support calls. 2.) Get regular, extensive checkups on your critical ac systems and check all emergency dampers at least once a year. 3.) Get a policy in place for standard operating procedures for these types of events and put them into practice. My amount of fallout was minimal, but could have been much worse.