[AusNOG] Equinix Outage

[McDonald Richards]

Our equipment and racks at Equinix were unaffected but we saw a large number
of switch ports go down simultaneously.

Macca


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[mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matt Carter
Sent: Friday, 3 July 2009 10:46 AM
To: 'ausnog at ausnog.net'
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Equinix Outage

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


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