Re: Tornados in Ashburn (Equinix affected)

["David A. Ulevitch" <davidu () everydns net>]

<quote who="Deepak Jain">

> Specifically in Equinix's case:
>
> 1) Good that they [seemed] to have maintained partial power.
>
> 2) Good that they restored cooling [power to the blowers?] relatively
> quickly. By the graph someone posted and their message, it looks like
> their chillers were on an unaffected system, but their blowers weren't
> [as in, were affected].
>
> 3) Good that they seemed to be able to bring together enough
> knowledgeable folks quickly to resolve the problems that did occur
> relatively quickly.

I would have to agree.  We have a setup in this facility and even with the
quick temperature spike, we didn't skip a beat.

Can't ask for much more than that.  It seems to me like things worked
nearly as they should have, and if they didn't, the contingency plans were
effective.

-david



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