[AusNOG] OT: Brisbane Storm. Gentlemen, start your engines..

[Skeeve Stevens]

Ok, on this. What do people think of doing your own bottom of rack ups in datacentres which supposedly have good protection with UPS and Gensets, but given industry experience, aren't always 100% reliable?

I'm talking only something that gives a short period of time to deal with cutover delays as exampled here.

The ups can always be powered by dual feeds with a transfer switch. Thoughts?

...Skeeve
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>From the Blackberry Bold 9700 of Skeeve Stevens

----- Original Message -----
From: Tony [mailto:td_miles at yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 04:45 PM
To: Sean K. Finn <sean.finn at ozservers.com.au>; craig at askings.com.au <craig at askings.com.au>
Cc: 'ausnog at ausnog.net' <ausnog at ausnog.net>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] OT: Brisbane Storm. Gentlemen, start your engines..

I was at Fujitsu (for an unrelated incident) when this happened today.

>From what I can gather a UPS failed at some point while they were switching load to generators in preparation for the impending storm.

The net result was that one of the power feeds to our racks failed. The outage was short, somewhere between 1-30 seconds. Any equipment that was just on the "A" supply lost power and rebooted. Anything that was dual supply (A + B) was fine and continued without issue.

Morale of the story - make sure your gear either has dual PSU or you use a power transfer switch to plug all of your single PSU devices into both power feeds (of course you then have a single point of failure in the transfer switch, so choose your poison).


regards,
Tony.


--- On Thu, 16/12/10, craig at askings.com.au <craig at askings.com.au> wrote:


> Yes, further reports I have indicate
> it was only part of the DC that had
> issues.
> 
> Craig.
> 
> > Is that Bris Tech Park?
> >
> > From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> > [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net]
> On Behalf Of Joshua Lehman
> > Sent: Thursday, 16 December 2010 2:14 PM
> > To: craig at askings.com.au
> > Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
> > Subject: Re: [AusNOG] OT: Brisbane Storm. Gentlemen,
> start your engines..
> >
> > Yes
> > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:13 PM,
> > <craig at askings.com.au<mailto:craig at askings.com.au>>
> wrote:
> > 8 mile plains DC ?
> >
> >> It looks like the DC at Fujitsu is having issues
> apparently the UPS have
> >> failed.
> >>
> >
> >
> 



      
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