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Re: San Francisco Power Outage

  • From: Michael Loftis
  • Date: Tue Jul 24 23:03:39 2007



--On July 24, 2007 7:57:28 PM -0400 Patrick Giagnocavo <[email protected]> wrote:



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
[email protected]







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