I say, "oof" (TM, -sc) Thanks for the good wishes, and believe me when I tell you that I haven't forgotten for a moment that MBS is headquartered about 70 miles from where I sit. :)
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Webster <webs...@carlwebster.com> wrote: > “The procedure itself seems straightforward enough, but those spindles > have been going for about 4.5 years and it could mean a lot of restore time > if more than two in any disk group decide that they don't want to spin up > again.”**** > > ** ** > > Actually had this happen at a hospital’s data center back in early 2010. > Someone went work in the data center and decided it was too cold for them > in the room. So they went over to the “DO NOT TOUCH OR ADJUST THIS > THERMOSTAT” labeled box and turned OFF the entire A/C system. They left > and forgot to turn the A/C back on. A few hours later alarms were going > off everywhere (it was 5 below zero F outside) and by the time we got there > all the servers, UPS units, SANS, NASes and just about everything else had > powered off.**** > > ** ** > > No one knew what happened but the building super opened the roof vent to > let the extreme cold air from outside into the data center. By the time > they figured out what had happened, the rooftop HVAC units had frozen. > When they got all that figured out, the customer realized they had no idea > what needed to be powered on in what order because they had never shutdown > before. They just started powering up servers, storage, firewalls, > switches, you name it in random order since a non-random order was unknown. > **** > > ** ** > > Two of their SANs came up with multiple drive failures and then there were > those mysterious Unix servers that no one knew about. No one knew the > passwords to get in to start the services and software. They had to place > an emergency call in to HP since it was HP Unix servers and HP SANs. I was > there at the beginning discovery phase of an AD assessment because two > hospitals were merging and they needed to know what to plan for in merging > the two Ads. All this happened on a Friday. I was sent home early since > no one was now available to work with me.**** > > ** ** > > I do hope you don’t any mysterious servers or systems waiting to bite you > in the butt when you power up. J If so, MBS and ASB are available at > excellent emergency rates! LOL I’m not available, I start a 35,000 seat > XenDesktop project on Monday.**** > > ** ** > > Thanks**** > > ** ** > > ** ** > > Webster**** > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
