Hey Chad,<div><br></div><div>That's a pretty general site you're pointing to.<div><br></div><div>Could you possibly be a bit more specific? Clicked through a couple of links on it but everything was very high level.</div><div><br></div><div><span></span>As I noted elsewhere I am in SA but my employer is national so keeping across all this is never a bad thing.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Sam<br><br>On Friday, 11 August 2017, Chad Kelly <<a href="mailto:chad@cpkws.com.au">chad@cpkws.com.au</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
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    <p>It comes under the Victorian Occupational Health and safety Act
      2004 from the bit of reading I did yesterday. <br>
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    <p><a href="https://www.worksafe.vic.gov.au/laws/ohs" target="_blank">https://www.worksafe.vic.gov.<wbr>au/laws/ohs</a> <br>
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    <div>On 8/11/2017 10:17 AM, Jared Hirst
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            <div style="direction:ltr">Totally agree. I would just like
              to know what law Simon was referring too?</div>
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            <div>Regards,<br>
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              Jared Hirst<br>
              Servers Australia Pty Ltd<br>
              Phone: +61 2 8115 8801<br>
              Email: <a dir="ltr" href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jared.hirst@serversaustralia.com.au');" target="_blank">jared.hirst@serversaustralia.<wbr>com.au</a></div>
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        <div dir="ltr"><font style="font-size:11pt" face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>From:</b>
            AusNOG <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net');" target="_blank"><ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.<wbr>net></a> on behalf of
            Mark Newton <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','newton@atdot.dotat.org');" target="_blank"><newton@atdot.dotat.org></a><br>
            <b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 11, 2017 4:54:10 AM<br>
            <b>To:</b> Nathan Brookfield<br>
            <b>Cc:</b> <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ausnog@lists.ausnog.net');" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>;
            <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ausnog-request@lists.ausnog.net');" target="_blank">ausnog-request@lists.ausnog.<wbr>net</a>; Chad Kelly<br>
            <b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] NextDC Melbourne - Scheduled
            Power Maintenance -, 15th August</font>
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          <div>As someone who has run colo facilities
            before:<br>
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            It should be made completely clear during customer
            onboarding that the facility operator can temporarily shut
            down a power feed at any time. Advance warning should be
            desirable but optional.<br>
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            If there is risk involved in doing that, it’s your job to
            mitigate it. The facility operator doesn’t know which bits
            of equipment in your tenancy are critical, and they’ve
            already told you to dual-feed where possible and use a
            rack-mount ATS for single-corded equipment.<br>
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            Power work should be done during business hours, because
            it’s almost impossible to get emergency support or source
            replacement equipment out of hours.<br>
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            If it isn’t safe to take a power feed offline during
            business hours, then you (the customer) have a design
            problem to solve.<br>
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              - mark<br>
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            > On Aug 10, 2017, at 6:56 AM, Nathan Brookfield
            <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Nathan.Brookfield@simtronic.com.au');" target="_blank"><Nathan.Brookfield@simtronic.<wbr>com.au></a> wrote:<br>
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            > Chad,<br>
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            > That's all well and good but when you're paying a
            premium price for services of this fashion you expect a
            certain level of service.  There is a risk no matter what
            when switching from power supplies taking extra load they
            would not usually take as well as swing load issues with
            PDU's.<br>
            > <br>
            > I completely agree with your sentiment but the risk is
            not to be ignored especially during those times.<br>
            > <br>
            > Kindest Regards,<br>
            > Nathan Brookfield (VK2NAB)<br>
            > <br>
            > -----Original Message-----<br>
            > From: AusNOG [<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net');" target="_blank">mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.<wbr>ausnog.net</a>]
            On Behalf Of Chad Kelly<br>
            > Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2017 2:54 PM<br>
            > To: <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ausnog@lists.ausnog.net');" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>;
            <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ausnog-request@lists.ausnog.net');" target="_blank">ausnog-request@lists.ausnog.<wbr>net</a><br>
            > Subject: Re: [AusNOG] NextDC Melbourne - Scheduled
            Power Maintenance -, 15th August<br>
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            > <br>
            > On 8/10/2017 10:13 AM, <a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ausnog-request@lists.ausnog.net');" target="_blank">ausnog-request@lists.ausnog.<wbr>net</a>
            wrote:<br>
            >> From the latest update today, It appears that most
            of the works are <br>
            >> being postponed for the time being<br>
            >> <br>
            >> Not all devices within racks support 2 feeds and
            planning is involved <br>
            >> with these devices, which is why it is crucial to
            receive accurate information about any pending outages or
            upgrades to the NextDC DataCentres which affect services.<br>
            > If these services are mission critical then you really
            should have duel PSU units, so that when one feed gets taken
            offline the equipment automatically switches to the other
            feed. They won't just disconnect both feeds at once because
            that would be stupid and if the entire DC was offline for
            too much time then that would put the owners in a rather
            awkward situation legally, as after say 8 or 10 hours of
            downtime it wouldn't be good for the owners lets put it that
            way.<br>
            > If the single PSU units are a part of a customers
            co-located equipment then really your terms of service
            agreement should exclude liability under your maintenance
            clauses.<br>
            > I don't understand why anyone would be using single PSU
            equipment in a DC environment now a days when you can buy
            refurbished servers that come with two PSU as standard even
            when you buy them without raid.<br>
            > Also for anything that is really really mission
            critical you should have it hosted in multiple datacentres
            anyway so if something stupid does happen that you can't
            control you at least still have services online as the load
            balanced services would just switch.<br>
            > Regards Chad.<br>
            > <br>
            > --<br>
            > Chad Kelly<br>
            > Manager<br>
            > CPK Web Services<br>
            > Phone 03 5273 0246<br>
            > Web <a href="http://www.cpkws.com.au" target="_blank">www.cpkws.com.au</a><br>
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Chad Kelly 
Manager 
CPK Web Services 
Phone 03 5273 0246  
Web <a href="http://www.cpkws.com.au" target="_blank">www.cpkws.com.au</a></pre>
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