[AusNOG] Outage at iPrimus Datacentre - 55 King St, Melbourne
Skeeve Stevens
skeeve at skeeve.org
Mon Feb 2 10:00:00 EST 2009
You woulda thought security guards would have been appropriate though.
...Skeeve
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[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Brad Gould
Sent: Monday, 2 February 2009 9:49 AM
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Outage at iPrimus Datacentre - 55 King St, Melbourne
All the doors at 55 King are mag-locks. So the doors being wide open
would have been a legally-mandated feature, not a bug.
Brad
Campbell, Alex wrote:
> Is it standard practise for all the doors to unlock when power goes
> out? Surely the security system (and perhaps lights) should be on their
> own UPS?
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> *From:* ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Darren Moss
> *Sent:* Sunday, 1 February 2009 10:35 PM
> *To:* ausnog at ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Outage at iPrimus Datacentre - 55 King St,
Melbourne
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> What an absolute disgrace.
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> I was onsite today and the place was a disaster. No lights, no air-con,
> security doors wide open.
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> No checking of IDs, process out the door.
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> My staff and I removed application servers and walked straight past the
> NOC staff - who did not even ask what we were doing.
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> Yes, that's right, lugging HP Proliant boxes and rail kits under our
> arms. Can you believe it ???
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> Thank goodness we removed the bulk of our application servers from there
> in 2008.
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> The rest will be removed this week.
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> Primus staff have just confirmed that the facility is back on mains
> power, and power has been restored to all customer areas.
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> No word on what happened to the generator (generators?) yet.
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> *From:* Skeeve Stevens [mailto:skeeve at skeeve.org]
> *Sent:* Sunday, 1 February 2009 6:05 PM
> *To:* 'Bevan Slattery'; Campbell, Alex; ausnog at ausnog.net
> *Subject:* RE: [AusNOG] Outage at iPrimus Datacentre - 55 King St,
Melbourne
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> Any word as to what happened to the generators?
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> .Skeeve
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> *From:* ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Bevan Slattery
> *Sent:* Sunday, 1 February 2009 5:58 PM
> *To:* Campbell, Alex; skeeve at eintellego.net; ausnog at ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Outage at iPrimus Datacentre - 55 King St,
Melbourne
> *Importance:* High
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> Further update from Primus. Failure of substation. City Power (I think)
> have been working on the issue. Problem has been rectified and are
> about to switch back to mains as I type.
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> Cheers
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> *From:* ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Campbell, Alex
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 01, 2009 4:37 PM
> *To:* skeeve at eintellego.net; ausnog at ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Outage at iPrimus Datacentre - 55 King St,
Melbourne
>
> We lost power at 2:40pm and saw both A & B feeds come back up in the
> expansion room at about 4:02pm. At this stage some of the older areas
> haven't had power restored yet.
>
> Not getting any info from DC staff on cause or likelihood of continued
> power issues tonight.
>
> Alex
> (who doesn't mind hiding out from the Melbourne heat in the aircon at
> Primus right now)
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> *From*: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> *To*: ausnog at ausnog.net
> *Cc*: nznog at list.waikato.ac.nz
> *Sent*: Sun Feb 01 15:12:59 2009
> *Subject*: [AusNOG] Outage at iPrimus Datacentre - 55 King St, Melbourne
>
> Hey all,
>
>
>
> Little detail at present... but the iPrimus DC in 55 King St Melbourne
> seems to have had a complete failure. Power, UPS and Generator have
> apparently all failed.
>
>
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> Anyone else have more detail, feel free to follow up.
>
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> ...Skeeve
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