[AusNOG] Equinix Outage

[Matt Carter]

Coming in a bit late on this one, had yesterday off and was in the front paddock chopping firewood - sometimes it's nice to be blissfully unaware ;)

It's interesting to see the mixed opinions varying from 'numerous outages' to the 'first issue'. We ourselves have experienced some previous issues and for this reason have A + B power feeds and ATS at EQ Mascot.

What doesn't make sense to me is why any "state-wide power issue" could be touted as a reason for loss of supply inside the DC anyway. Why are we "undergoing controlled switching to backup generators" ? What happened to UPS + backup generators and automatic switching?? Why are the generators being started up manually in the first place??

To me there is no extenuating circumstances, act of god or anything of the like, its just a simple case of our DC lost power and the only reason we can come up with is that the energy retailer is giving us a dodgy supply ?!? Doesn't seem to add up - isn't that the reason you go to a DC !?

It's also interesting that its cited the outage affected only the meet me room and "some customer racks" - I've yet to hear of anyone who has a rack that didn't experience power loss yesterday?

--matt