Wow... Thats to bad! I am glad that no one was hurt.
I have seen this kind of outage in my company's Centers and Nodes. I
understand what they are going through and I am a Disaster Recovery SME. Its
a lot of work ahead of them but I hope for the best.
A key thing that we have done is that we have all our servers to DC power
supply's and a week of battery backup. I not talking Liebert power systems.
We can shut our generators down and run the network/ servers off of DC power.
Worried about the Fire Dept shutting your DC plant down. As long you
understand the NFPA and the NEC a little the Fire Dept will not shutdown your
DC plant as long you show them there is no hazards to the Fire Dept personal.
I can go on and on about this and what I have done but really this kind of
outage makes for better company's to get a better power infrastructure
standards to help to meet SLA agreements.
Rob C
Just a nobody!
On Sat, 31 May 2008 22:23:40 -0700 (PDT), Dan Kriwitsky wrote
> I'm guessing some folks have servers hosted there.
> http://forums.theplanet.com/index.php?showtopic=90185
> "This evening at 4:55pm CDT in our H1 data center, electrical gear
> shorted, creating an explosion and fire that knocked down three
> walls surrounding our electrical equipment room. Thankfully, no one
> was injured. In addition, no customer servers were damaged or lost."
>
> --
> Dan Kriwitsky