Toby Thain wrote:
On 17-Feb-09, at 3:01 PM, Scott Lawson wrote:
Hi All,
...
I have seen other people discussing power availability on other threads
recently. If you
want it, you can have it. You just need the business case for it. I
don't buy the comments
on UPS unreliability.
Hi,
I remarked on it. FWIW, my experience is that commercial data centres
do not avoid 'unscheduled outages', no matter how many steely-eyed
assurances they give. It seems rather imprudent to assume that power
is never going to fail.
No matter how many diesel generators, rooftop tanks, or pebblebed
reactors you have, somebody is inevitably going to kick out a plug...
at least in most of the real world.
--Toby
Thats why you have two plugs if not more. I still don't buy your
argument. It comes down to procedural
issues on the site when it comes to people kicking plugs out. Everything
we have has dual power supplies,
feed from dual power rails, feed from separate switchboards, through
separate very large UPS's, backed by
generators, feed by two substations and then cloned to another data
center 3 km away. HA is all about
design. (I won't even comment about further up the stack than electricity)
We have secure data centers with strict practices of work and qualified
staff following best practice for maintenance
and risk management around maintenance.
I am far, far more worried with someone with root access typing 'zpool
destroy' than I am worried about the lights
going out in the data centers I designed that house hundreds and
hundreds of servers. ;) and no we don't have unplanned
outages. Not in a long time. Not all people that design data centers
know how to design power systems
for them. Sometimes the IT people don't convey their requirements
exactly enough to the electrical engineers. (I am
an electrical engineer who got sidetracked by SunOS around '91 and never
went back.)
Anyway we diverge I think. Maybe we can agree to disagree? Back to
discussions about disk caddies and
overpriced hardware.. slightly more closer to the topic at hand... ;)
...
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