At 4:00pm PDT today, somebody decided to plug their brand new $20,000 refridgerator sized Cisco Router into the power provided by our data center. Rather than turning on like a good giant router, this one decided to throw a giant fireball that burned the hand of the tech who plugged it in. The UPS, which keeps the power on when the city looses power, didn't like this one bit and threw it's breaker and took down several racks worth of servers. Photographica and XLAN were on one of those racks and we lost power for about an hour.
The tech is okay, but the router sadly didn't make it.
(a couple of these are from Cisco.com... I only wish I had one of my own to take a picture of...)
- Smile ; )
- the EYES have it
I uploaded several images during the problem period, and now I can't find several of them to insert. Some of them are in the Story Photo section and aren't available to popup. Also, the alpha order is all mixed up. Any suggestions?
- A quack with an camera
- Film-junkie: Back in 2008
This is actually where we are really at: http://www.westinbuilding.com/telecom/ -> http://www.colocenters.com/facilities/
If you uploaded images during the problem period, I'd hazard all bets are off. It took longer to bring up than I expected because a server who hadn't been rebooted in over 3 years (as in, had an uptime of over three years!!) didn't restart on its own because of a CPU fan failure.
- Spike Lee
It's funny how servers do things like at. They took the whole building down where my wife works a few years back to put a back up generator in. When they brought it back up we started bringing things back up in the data room one of the main servers wouldn't come back up. After several tries I grabbed the box and a box with a new power supply in it and headed for a table in the lunch room. I replaced the power supply and away we went.
Sometimes they do strange things if you shut them off.
Your data center is well hidden and should be safe from any terrorist types.
- Oh Bull!