[191484] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: One more thing to watch out for at data centers - fire drills
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Chase)
Sat Sep 17 14:12:24 2016
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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2016 14:12:20 -0400
From: Ken Chase <math@sizone.org>
To: hcb@netcases.net
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All of these discussions sounds infinitely safe for humans.
Servers and network gear is replaceable. Sounds like the failure was not one of
DC mismanagement but human safety errors.
/kc
On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 09:27:26AM -0400, hcb@netcases.net said:
>On 2016-09-17 08:39, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>>http://motherboard.vice.com/read/a-loud-sound-just-shut-down-a-banks-data-center-for-10-hours?utm_source=bbcfb
>>
>>Releasing inert gas from fire suppression units that were over
>>pressurized resulted in an extremely loud noise ??? causing cabinets
>>full of hard drives to vibrate ??? which got transmitted to the read ???
>>write heads of the drives.
>>
>>Amazing sort of outage + data loss, and this time the physical
>>security plant chief gets to write up the RCA.
>>
>>--srs
>
>Another unexpected result when we had an all-out Halon test: thick fog,
>apparently from cold gas and somewhat humid air. I'm glad to have been
>watching through windows. Visibility in the room dropped to zero.
--
Ken Chase - math@sizone.org Guelph Canada
