Re: What to expect after a cooling failure

[Daniel Taylor <dtaylor () vocalabs com>]

Another failure I've seen connected to overheating events is AC power 
supply failures.

On 07/09/2013 10:28 PM, Erik Levinson wrote:
> As some may know, yesterday 151 Front St suffered a cooling failure after Enwave's facilities were flooded.
>
> One of the suites that we're in recovered quickly but the other took much longer and some of our gear shutdown 
> automatically due to overheating. We shut down remotely many redundant and non-essential systems in the hotter suite, and 
> transferred remotely some others to the cooler suite, to ensure that we had a minimum of all core systems running in the 
> hotter suite. We waited until the temperatures returned to normal, and brought everything back online. The entire event 
> lasted from approx 18:45 until 01:15. Apparently ambient temperature was above 43 degrees Celcius at one point on the cool 
> side of cabinets in the hotter suite.
>
> For those who have gone through such events in the past, what can one expect in terms of long-term impact...should we 
> expect some premature component failures? Does anyone have any stats to share?
>
> Thanks
>
> --
> Erik Levinson
> CTO, Uberflip
> 416-900-3830
> 1183 King Street West, Suite 100
> Toronto ON  M6K 3C5
> www.uberflip.com
>