Insurance data center in NC, first failure when main underground power feed (single feed) burned in two. Big portable Cat generator outside the building for 3 weeks while local power company replaced. So local power company was paid to bring alternate feed in from the other direction. Bush hog guy clearing the undergrowth clipped the power pole support cable which flew up in the air, shorted a transformer, which exploded and set the property on fire, caused massive outage in the entire area. Hurricane Hugo led us to generator backup. Finally got the data center where we needed it. Huge UPS room full of batteries, 3 massive Cat generators, redundant power and telco feeds. Oops, forgot about the water. The cooling towers were out away from the buildings. Broken water main 2 blocks from the office, so utility department shut off the water, in July, in NC. Took about 15 minutes for the cooling towers to shut down because of lack of water. Took about 6 minutes before t! hermal alarms had us shutting down systems. 2 weeks later, 8 inch well beside the cooling towers was completed. Pump was hooked to local power and generator feed. Then they closed the data center and made it a call center. Best prepared call center I have ever seen.
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:33:25 -0400, zMan <[email protected]> wrote: >So over the years I've heard a few good stories about accidental (or >deliberate) Halon dumps and BRS pressings. Like operators playing Frisbee >in the machine room and discovering that the Halon button really, really >needs a cover on it... > >Who else has stories to share? >-- >zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
