It's not the first time this has happened at GSU. It's caused by the
very loud noise that is generated when the inergen gas is released. It
causes errors on spinning disks that quickly fill up their spare sector
table while trying to write during the discharge. It usually only
effects servers beneath the nozels so that's likely why it only effected
tabcorp.
It happend in the AAPT suite on level 4 a few years back when a belt on
an air handling unit failed and smoked up setting off the fire system.
I remember being there and looking into the face of many broken men on
that day. RAID does not help when all your disks die at once.
I have equipment in level 2 4 and 6 at GSU and did not hear about the 7
November incident so perhaps it was just one private suite.
Matt
On 15/11/20 5:58 pm, Christopher Hawker wrote:
I came across this article, relating to the Tabcorp outage on 7
November - claims the fire suppression system in the hall at Global
Switch was activated and damaged servers, which is why Tabcorp was
offline for so long. GS also claims that Tabcorp was the only affected
customer. Did anyone receive a fire alarm activation alert?
What potentially would have triggered the activation and discharge?
https://www.itnews.com.au/news/global-switch-says-no-fire-in-tabcorp-data-centre-incident-555661
<https://www.itnews.com.au/news/global-switch-says-no-fire-in-tabcorp-data-centre-incident-555661>
Thanks,
CH
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