Datacenters & Weather
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How do you guys handle them? Right now we proactively failover and shutdown them if we know there's likely to be issues anyway rather than let them automatically fail-over after something does happen.
We do both load Balancing and fail over with all of them so it's not a big deal either way, we just do it to prevent any damage from the center being powered up.
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Not dealing with a datacenter as more than a customer, I have no direct perspective on this.
I would generally handle it as you specified. Proactively fail over and reroute the load balancing.
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We always built ours to handle any weather event. We've taken hurricanes in the past, no issues. Even when the first floor was under water.
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I know that I've toured Houston DCs that were designed for at least ten feet of water on the production floor.
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@scottalanmiller said in Datacenters & Weather:
I know that I've toured Houston DCs that were designed for at least ten feet of water on the production floor.
I take it everything is made water resistant somehow?
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@travisdh1 said in Datacenters & Weather:
@scottalanmiller said in Datacenters & Weather:
I know that I've toured Houston DCs that were designed for at least ten feet of water on the production floor.
I take it everything is made water resistant somehow?
Or just raised to 11 feet off the floor? lol.
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@scottalanmiller said in Datacenters & Weather:
I know that I've toured Houston DCs that were designed for at least ten feet of water on the production floor.
Ours are raised for water but, that does you no good if the Backbone providers are going to go down... and if natural gas lines break we only have a short window on UPS without Generators.
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Our colocation has raised floors, fully redundant diesel generators, and 50k gallons of fuel onsite. The building is designed to withstand some crazy high winds (can't remember the exact rating, but we went 'wow'). Plus fully redundant internet connections with failover set up (assuming the 'net is still up during a bad storm or tornado).
