[98115] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: San Francisco Power Outage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Loftis)
Tue Jul 24 22:59:10 2007
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 19:06:42 -0600
From: Michael Loftis <mloftis@wgops.com>
To: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>, nanog@nanog.org
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--On July 24, 2007 7:57:28 PM -0400 Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
wrote:
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> 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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