Re: San Francisco Power Outage

[Michael Loftis <mloftis () wgops com>]

--On July 24, 2007 7:57:28 PM -0400 Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick () zill net> 
wrote:

> On Jul 24, 2007, at 6:54 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> > I have a question: does anyone seriously accept "oh, power trouble"
> > as a reason your servers went offline? Where's the generators? UPS?
> > Testing said combination of UPS and generators? What if it was
> > important? I honestly find it hard to believe anyone runs a
> > facility like that and people actually *pay* for it.
>
> Sad that the little Telcove DC here in Lancaster, PA, that Level3 bought
> a few months ago, has weekly full-on generator tests where 100% of the
> load is transferred to the generator, while apparently large DCs that are
> charging premium rates, do not.

There's graceful startup testing, then there's dark start testing.  During 
a recent dark start test one of the other customers in the facility I'm in 
found out their Juniper was not even plugged into their batteries.

> Cordially
>
> Patrick Giagnocavo
> patrick () zill net



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