“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. ☺ 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 [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
