>From Info Week: "VITA said on Friday that it had successfully repaired the EMC DMX-3 storage area network (SAN) responsible for the outage. Thirteen percent of the state's file servers failed as a result of the SAN going down."
Also Info Week: " The outage happened when an EMC storage area network (SAN) and its redundancy failed on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Virginia Information Technologies Agency (VITA). When this occurred, 228 servers attached to the network -- which host shared applications and software used statewide -- could not access data." >From http://www2.wsls.com/news/2010/sep/01/7/vita01-ar-482084/ " ...described as minimal data losses from the blackout, which was caused by the failure of two circuit boards that control more than 400 servers." >From some wise guy: "Tinker toys come tumbling down and go boom. For a week." >From the same wise guy: "It looks like the large DB2/IMS applications were 'modernized' under a contract long over schedule and way over budget." -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Avram Friedman Sent: Wednesday, September 01, 2010 1:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Virginia DOT outage As many of you may know the State of Virginia has been dealing with a major computer system outage impacting 24 departments. The outage has extended over 7 business days with no estimated time for repair. Most of the press that I have seen discusses driver license renewals being down to the extent that police are not sighting people who are stopped and found to have recently expired licenses. Some of the stories suggest the problem is in a DASD server and memory cards need to be replaced and possibly data recovered. Most US state's DOT are large IMS and or DB2 shops. Any one have more details? There must be a database lesson to be learned here. Or a Mainframe vs smaller server lesson. Here is a link to a recent article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp- dyn/content/article/2010/08/31/AR2010083105968.html Av Friedman NOTICE: This electronic mail message and any files transmitted with it are intended exclusively for the individual or entity to which it is addressed. The message, together with any attachment, may contain confidential and/or privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, printing, saving, copying, disclosure or distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please immediately advise the sender by reply email and delete all copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
