+1 Cheers to that individual to not be so shortsighted as to knee-jerk and get rid of the people that made the mistake. If they had been repeat screw-ups, it would have been a different story, I am sure.
Happy Friday, everyone! Jonathan L. Raper, A+, MCSA, MCSE Technology Coordinator Eagle Physicians & Associates, PA [email protected]<BLOCKED::mailto:%[email protected]> www.eaglemds.com<BLOCKED::http://www.eaglemds.com/> ________________________________ From: Steven Peck [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 6:23 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Massive computer outage halts some Va. agencies So many times the screw ups are small. Noticeable only to a few. However, there are those times, when you become 'that guy'. Those days and the weeks that follow just sort of suck. At a previous place, way back in the NT3.51 days. A DC had a hardware failure that was resolved but left the DC in a weird state. So the BDC was promoted and that blue screened and failed as well. The backup tapes were turned to and well... it really was a bad week for those two guys. So people were told no logging out, work on paper, pull out the disaster scenario plans and keep the business running. Three days and a bunch of desktop guys running around fixing broken trusts on desktop systems later (site had 8,000 desktops and a few thousand servers, only about 1,000 desktops had to be physically touched) the disaster was over. A common statement was "I'll bet those guys got fired". The IT director stopped by our group once and stated, "I already paid for the mistake, why would I get rid of those who have learned the lesson?". Of course, they were staked to the wall for a few weeks in various meetings until some other issue allowed them to take off the burlap sacks. This was not a small company. It was a large International place whose products every person on this lists uses. Sometimes, things just happen. All it takes is for the wrong 3 or 4 things to happen at the same time to make it worse. Steven On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Sean Martin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I'm not overly concerned. We've been running a couple of CX700s for about 5 years with no issues other than a few bad drives. I'm sure the vendor of their hardware had a similar track record though. I'd still like to know why bad memory would prompt them to failover. - Sean On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 12:04 PM, Mayo, Bill <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I wouldn't worry. We have been using EMC CX-whatevers for over 7 years now. We have had hard drives die (naturally) and even once had a memory stick go bad. But never once has a hardware failure lead to any downtime. The redundancy within CLARiiONs is extensive. Bill Mayo ________________________________ From: Sean Martin [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Friday, August 27, 2010 3:51 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Massive computer outage halts some Va. agencies Odd, I can hit the site just fine from Anchorage.... Possibly. Can't wait to find out. We just bought an EMC CX4-960 earlier this year. I'm assuming they're using higher-end gear so it has me thinking what kind of failures we could be victim of. - Sean On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Ben Scott <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Sean Martin <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.net/2010/08/massive-computer-outage-halts-some-va-agencies Unable to lookup the IP address of host name: hamptonroads.com.nyud.net<http://hamptonroads.com.nyud.net/> The DNS (Domain Name System) subsystem returned: Server Failure: The name server was unable to process this query. > I'm really curious to know what SAN hardware they're using.... 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