[74233] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Tornados in Ashburn (Equinix affected)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David A. Ulevitch)
Sat Sep 18 23:38:17 2004
In-Reply-To: <414CFD05.30209@ai.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 20:37:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: "David A. Ulevitch" <davidu@everydns.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
<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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