[188446] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why the US Government has so many data centers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rafael Possamai)
Wed Mar 23 12:01:44 2016
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From: Rafael Possamai <rafael@e2wsolutions.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 11:23:17 -0500
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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Circuit utilization, capacity and availability shouldn't be calculated
separately in a data center environment. If you look at each separately you
risk making some expensive mistakes.
*Rafael Possamai*
Founder & CEO at E2W Solutions
*office:* (414) 269-6000
*e-mail:* rafael@e2wsolutions.com
On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:11 AM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2016, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>
>> But when some Armenian script kiddie DDoSing Netflix takes down your TSA
>> terrorist lookup service, and you come to me asking why the plane blew up,
>> I'm going to tell you "because you fucking ignored my written advice on
>> the matter", while I'm packing my desk.
>>
>
> DOCI is about physical data center opimization, not about network or
> service availability.
>
> DCOI metrics:
> - Energy metering
> - Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE)
> - Virtualization
> - Server Utilization & Automated Monitoring
> - Facility Utilization
>
> Why do you have two circuits with only 40% utilization. The auditor says
> that's waste, and you only need one circuit at 80% utilization for half
> the cost.
>
>
>
