[AusNOG] Equinix Aircon failure

[Don Gould]

http://i.stuff.co.nz/travel/travel-troubles/7933250/Check-in-crash-causes-havoc

I want, no, make the DEMAND.... ;)

Seriously, isn't this just the risk that comes with low cost 'anything'?

Reads like the systems are built to a budget which you accept when you buy
a ticket.

I see no blame or fault here.

I do wonder if the savings of a nonredundant system are greater than the
operarional loss today though.

D
On Nov 10, 2012 5:40 PM, "John Lindsay" <JLindsay at internode.com.au> wrote:

>  Then you've been punked. :-)
>
>  Actually I quite like flying with Virgin. Clean, new planes and super
> friendly staff.
>
>  You might enjoy it like a pile of other QF FFs have.
>
> jsl
>
> On 10/11/2012, at 3:06 PM, "Jeffrey Sims" <jeffy at tehintartubes.net> wrote:
>
>  Neither actually. :) Not a Y or a Z
>
>  On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:35 PM, John Lindsay <JLindsay at internode.com.au>wrote:
>
>>  You're gen-y or z right?
>>
>>  Think of it as a lesson in manners.
>>
>> jsl
>>
>> On 10/11/2012, at 2:29 PM, "Jeffrey Sims" <jeffy at tehintartubes.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  One thing I will say it's easy to back seat drive when you're not
>> involved but realistically, such a critical system with no DR either in
>> geographically diverse locations or even in the same DC but different rows,
>> power supplies etc?
>>
>>  No DR still in my mind, recipe for disaster...
>>
>>  I feel for all those people jammed in Airports, I might add I was
>> mocking the boss who is on a Virgin flight to day reminding him that QF
>> remains unaffected ;) so he booked my next set of flights with Virgin as
>> retribution.
>>
>> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Michael Keating <mkeating44 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  I made a similar comment in Twitter just now. One spot in one data
>>> centre for such a critical system?
>>>
>>>  Without knowing any details about their business, that seems rather
>>> slack and obviously doesn't work.
>>>
>>>  Michael Keating.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 10/11/2012, at 1:40 PM, Jeffrey Sims <jeffy at tehintartubes.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>    It looks like the EQUNIX outage blew up airports Australia wide that
>>> use Navitare.... whoopsie.
>>>
>>>  Mind you, this is the second time Navitare has failed without a DR
>>> system... you'd think they learnt the first time around.
>>>
>>>  The outage was caused by a power failure at a Sydney data centre that
>>> affected the Navitaire reservations system, explained Jetstar spokesman
>>> Stephen Moynihan.
>>>
>>> Navitaire, a subsidiary of the American firm Accenture, provides
>>> check-in and boarding services to all four airlines.
>>>
>>> Virgin Australia spokeswoman Melissa Thomson said the airline would move
>>> to a new IT system next year and would no longer be using the service.
>>>
>>> Read more:
>>> http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/checkin-restored-further-delays-expected-20121110-294k3.html#ixzz2BmtA2prQ
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Matt Perkins <matt at spectrum.com.au>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Looks like the power was out at parts of Sydney Airport also. Must have
>>>> been a wide spread outage.
>>>>
>>>> Matt.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 10/11/12 11:24 AM, Nathan Brookfield wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> They are on generator power due to mains failure.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nathan Brookfield
>>>>> Chief Executive Officer
>>>>>
>>>>> Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd
>>>>> http://www.simtronic.com.au
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/11/2012, at 10:16, "Travers Stark" <travers at starkie.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Our temps look ok ATM. Sitting at around 37 deg
>>>>>
>>>>> I have not seen any alerts from them.
>>>>>
>>>>> What has failed?.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/11/2012, at 9:58 AM, "Judd Howie" <juddhowie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>  funny, the whole time so far and even right now the Equinix ESP panel
>>>>>> is green lights all the way for SY2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> J
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