nanog mailing list archives
Re: Data Center testing
From: Jack Bates <jbates () brightok net>
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:45:41 -0500
Dan Snyder wrote:
We have done power tests before and had no problem. I guess I am looking for someone who does testing of the network equipment outside of just power tests. We had an outage due to a configuration mistake that became apparent when a switch failed. It didn't cause a problem however when we did a power test for the whole data center.
The plus side of failure testing is that it can be controlled. The downside to failure testing is that you can induce a failure. Maintenance windows are cool, but some people really dislike failures of any type which limits how often you can test. I personally try for once a year. However, a lot can go wrong in a year.
Jack
Current thread:
- Data Center testing Dan Snyder (Aug 24)
- RE: [SPAM-HEADER] - Data Center testing - Email has different SMTP TO: and MIME TO: fields in the email addresses Rod Beck (Aug 24)
- Re: Data Center testing Ken Gilmour (Aug 24)
- Re: Data Center testing Dan Snyder (Aug 24)
- Re: Data Center testing Jack Bates (Aug 24)
- Re: Data Center testing eric clark (Aug 25)
- Re: Data Center testing Jeff Aitken (Aug 25)
- RE: Data Center testing Frank Bulk - iName.com (Aug 25)
- Re: Data Center testing Jeff Aitken (Aug 26)
- Re: Data Center testing Dan Snyder (Aug 24)
- Re: Data Center testing James Hess (Aug 25)
- Re: Data Center testing Jack Bates (Aug 26)
- Re: Data Center testing Ross Vandegrift (Aug 26)
- RE: Data Center testing Dylan Ebner (Aug 26)
- RE: Data Center testing Deepak Jain (Aug 26)
- Re: Data Center testing Matthew Palmer (Aug 27)