Infrastructure is hard. I remember as a kid in the 70's waiting in lines. Especially when you have something but because of loss of power, damage, roadway obstruction, etc you can't get it where you need it.
Because I happen to be reading this page for a co-worker and have it up right now http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=13384 But VMware has a product that does this as well as other companies. This kind of stuff costs money but this is something to cost out. Define your services: What is 'Critical' to your business. What is 'Important' What is 'Nice to have' Based on that, inventory and identify what components are needed to accomplish that. If you can use this information when building out your systems so that you can accommadate that vision. Define plans of what you 'could do' and what you want to do. However, while the 'technical' part of this is important all of the questions that have to be answered first have to be developed and answered by the business side FIRST. Because that determines your budget and effort. You also need provisions in place for people. It doesn't matter if you have your entire infrastructure duplicated and running in a remote site if no one can get to it to accomplish work during or immediatly after the 'event'. Do your people have an emergency number to call so they know status? Where to go (the fall over site/remotely access/etc). Before you do the technical, start with the business side. You will do far more annoying meetings and discussions and planning and modifying to arrive at an agreement (then fighting for a budget which will be a whole new round of meetings, etc) before you can implement. There is a lot of mitigation you can do even if you don't fail over if you have the business priorities known ahead of time. To sum up.... get the business needs and priorities down now that you have your managements attention. Good luck, Steven Peck http://www.blkmtn.org On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Harry Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm in the NY area, specifically Queens and my part of the borough was > unaffected. My data center is in the Flatiron part of Manhattan, and power > was restored friday night. Two of my DC's crashed and corrupted the AD > database with it. It also brought down DNS, which brought down a bunch of > other services, vcenter an exchange being the biggest. Needless to say, I > spent the entire night morning with PSS bringing my AD back to life. I > spent the remainder of Saturday bringing everything else back online. > Luckily, not too much was damaged as a result of the power loss. > > Now that the network is up and running, I have to focus my efforts on > preparing the network for this kind of outage again. I've never personally > dealt with such a prolonged loss of power and am real curious to here from > folks on this list, how do you handle the continuance/survivability of your > network? I actually have a lot of question for the list, but will try and > stagger them as appropriate. > > Hope everyone out there is well. > > Harry. > > BTW, the gas shortages and lines are creating lines that I've never seen. > I'm talking anywhere from 1-3 miles and people waiting online for gas for > close to 4 hours in some places. I wasn't around in the 70's, so I can't > imagine how it was when the embargo happened, but this a first for me. > > > > On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Guyer, Don <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Now there are gas shortages and whatever public transportation is up and >> running is jammed because not many people can drive.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> I’m praying that this Noreaster coming stays out at sea.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Regards,**** >> >> * * >> >> *Don Guyer** >> **Catholic Health East - Information Technology***** >> >> Enterprise Directory & Messaging Services >> 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073**** >> >> email: *[email protected]***** >> >> Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440**** >> >> *For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the >> helpdesk @ 610-492-3839.* >> >> [image: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240]**** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Monday, November 05, 2012 1:14 PM >> >> >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues >> *Subject:* Re: East Coast people out there? >> **** >> >> ** ** >> >> I heard on the radio while driving to work this morning that over 2m >> people were still without power. >> >> I feel for them - a few years ago after a windstorm I went without power >> for 7 days, and that was bad enough, even though most of the surrounding >> area had power and I could go out to eat, shower at work, etc., and I had >> no kids then. >> >> I have trouble imagining trying to get through this when *everyone* >> around you has no power (except for those few with generators), and you >> have kids, etc. >> >> Kurt**** >> >> ** ** >> >> On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 5:19 AM, Andrew S. Baker <[email protected]> >> wrote:**** >> >> NYC and NJ are still hurting.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Some folks in NJ have gotten their power back recently, but it's still >> not good overall.**** >> >> >> **** >> >> **** >> >> **** >> >> *ASB***** >> >> *http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker* <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker>**** >> >> *Providing Expert Technology Consulting Services for the SMB market…***** >> >> **** >> >> >> >> **** >> >> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Michael Leone <[email protected]> >> wrote:**** >> >> I'm in Philly. No problems here. Power never went out, so no need for UPS >> or generators to kick in. I happen to live close by my data center, and my >> lights flickered once or twice, but that was all..**** >> >> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:00 AM, Guyer, Don <[email protected]> wrote:**** >> >> Just South of Philly here. Storm moved through here quicker than >> expected, so my area escaped fairly unscathed, considering. From what I’ve >> seen on the news, NY got it pretty hard.**** >> >> **** >> >> Jersey shore got hammered.**** >> >> **** >> >> Regards,**** >> >> * ***** >> >> *Don Guyer** >> **Catholic Health East - Information Technology***** >> >> Enterprise Directory & Messaging Services >> 3805 West Chester Pike, Suite 100, Newtown Square, Pa 19073**** >> >> email: *[email protected]***** >> >> Office: 610.550.3595 | Cell: 610.955.6528 | Fax: 610.271.9440**** >> >> *For immediate assistance, please open a Service Desk ticket or call the >> helpdesk @ 610-492-3839.***** >> >> [image: Description: Description: Description: InfoService-Logo240]**** >> >> **** >> >> *From:* Christopher Bodnar [mailto:[email protected]] >> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:45 AM**** >> >> >> *To:* NT System Admin Issues**** >> >> *Subject:* OT: East Coast people out there?**** >> >> **** >> >> Anyone else on the east coast dealing with the aftermath of Sandy? >> >> Still waiting to hear how our NY office faired. **** >> >> Chris**** >> >> >> ----------------------------------------- This message, and any >> attachments to it, may contain information that is privileged, >> confidential, and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. 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