[AusNOG] Global switch Level 4 Hard disk's

[Jason Lingohr]

Hah, yeah, because a plethora of DCs means they're "doing things right".

Not to mention Equinix's *awesome* legal contracts.


On 13/01/2014 4:21 PM, Jared Hirst wrote:
> Must be a very good reason, they have 100+ DC's all the same :(
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nathan Brookfield [mailto:Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 4:21 PM
> To: Jared Hirst; Joseph Goldman; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: RE: [AusNOG] Global switch Level 4 Hard disk's
>
> Yeah so it just means when/if a fire starts your equipment is completely
> SCREWED instead of just some blown drives.  I wouldn't say this is an
> advantage at all.
>
> Kindest Regards,
> Nathan Brookfield (VK2NAB)
>
> Chief Executive Officer
> Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Jared
> Hirst
> Sent: Monday, 13 January 2014 4:17 PM
> To: Joseph Goldman; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Global switch Level 4 Hard disk's
>
> " but the generality of the fault means it could happen in any major data
> center really."
>
> Wouldn't happen in Equinix... They use Dry Pipe and manual fire supression
> to alleviate any 'accidental' systems going off :)
>
> I would class that as a pretty major Data Centre.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Joseph
> Goldman
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 4:15 PM
> To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Global switch Level 4 Hard disk's
>
> It's not quite so funny when you realise some people may have hours - or
> days - worth of headache's ahead of them restoring back to production.
>
> It is an odd circumstance, and one that I would not have thought of
> personally in risk mitigation (beyond accounting for fire anyway). Are
> there drives rated against this kind of 'shock'? Obviously one should have
> Disaster Recovery in place, as the gas suppression going off may indicate
> your servers being doused in fire and unusable anyway, but when one can
> avoid DR one would, and I'd rather not break on a false positive.
>
> Luckily I don't use Global Switch, but the generality of the fault means
> it could happen in any major data center really.
>
>

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