Any listers (when you have time) who were effected the Great Blackout of
2003 please share your experiences. UPS, Y2K backup generators fired up,
scramble to shutdown, communication issues etc... It would be good to hear
how folks handled the situation for future reference.
Brad O.
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Title: RE: GREAT SCOTT!! 1.21 GIGAWATTS!!
All our production databases stayed up ... people lost connection to one building, but all servers in RAC stayed up including network switches etc in the data centers.
Raj
Your subject line looks like a quote from Back to the Future.
From the perspective of (a) being in Dallas, and (b) having all our
database servers in hardened collocations with redundant onsite
generators, my experience was pretty much having a few beers. I felt
spiritually obligated to follow
It's situations like this that make me love collocations. We basically
get to be part of a co-op that pays someone else to worry about power,
fire and physical security.
Sorry, I'm not a native english speaker, but what the heck does collocation
mean?
Tanel.
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We had 45 minutes on our UPS which handles our
routers, switches, firewall, phone system, 1 RS6000
(dual processor), and 5 Windows 2000 servers.
We waited 10 minutes to find out what was going on,
all the while shutting down non-essential servers.
Then we proceeded to perform a graceful shutdown
Tanel,
A co-location site is a service provider that sells space to companies for
their systems so one large physical site could be hosting the servers of
dozens and dozens of companies. Picture one really huge computer room filled
with rows of cages and each cage houses servers for one company
