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Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

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Re: Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

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Post by rgj »

AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #54
worldofmatthew wrote: post #11

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/1369504527544705025 "Update 5:20pm. Everybody is safe. Fire destroyed SBG2. A part of SBG1 is destroyed. Firefighters are protecting SBG3. no impact SBG4."

> Fire destroyed SBG2 This is crazy. SBG2 was HUGE and if this isn't a translation error on the part of Octave (which I could understand given the stress and ESL) I have a hard time fathoming what kind of fire could destroy a whole facility with nearly 1000 racks of equipment spread out across separated halls. I'm really hoping "destroyed" here means "we lost all power and network core and there's smoke/fire/physical…

No, "destroyed" looks like this: https://mobile.twitter.com/abonin_DNA/status/136953802824345...

EDIT a picture from earlier this night https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EwGqV17XMAMF_wa?format=jpg&name=...

Re: Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

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Post by pulse7 »

el-salvador wrote: post #107
geocrasher wrote: post #10

The classic "lp0 on fire" error message comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lp0_on_fire Really though, I feel truly awful for anyone affected by this. The post recommends implementing a disaster recovery plan. The truth is that most people don't have one. So, let's use this post to talk about Disaster Recovery Plans! Mine: I have 5 servers at OVH (not at SBG) and they all back up to Amazon S3 or Backblaze B2…

Pictures from the fire: https://www.dna.fr/amp/faits-divers-justice/2021/03/10/stras...

Uff... it looks like half of the containers on this picture were on fire...

Re: Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

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Post by baggy_trough »

AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #54
worldofmatthew wrote: post #11

https://twitter.com/olesovhcom/status/1369504527544705025 "Update 5:20pm. Everybody is safe. Fire destroyed SBG2. A part of SBG1 is destroyed. Firefighters are protecting SBG3. no impact SBG4."

> Fire destroyed SBG2 This is crazy. SBG2 was HUGE and if this isn't a translation error on the part of Octave (which I could understand given the stress and ESL) I have a hard time fathoming what kind of fire could destroy a whole facility with nearly 1000 racks of equipment spread out across separated halls. I'm really hoping "destroyed" here means "we lost all power and network core and there's smoke/fire/physical…

The pictures seem pretty clear that a lot of it is gone, judging by the blackened holes in the walls with firehoses being sprayed into.

Re: Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

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Post by moooo99 »

ogaj wrote: post #75

Wow. Weren't they just angling for an IPO? I wonder how much of this was insured and what the impact is to their overall operations.

I think they announced their IP plans yesterday [1], which is probably the worst timing one can have (if there even is a good timing for a datacenter burning down, probably there isn't).

If they have a good insurance I'm confident this will have little impact on their operations, I really hope they do. I host a few components on OVH/SoYouStart dedicated servers, luckily not mission critical, but still had rather good experience with them, especially in terms of price to performance.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN2B01FM

Re: Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

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Post by regecks »

abrookewood wrote: post #116
atkbrah wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A few years back there was an incident in Sweden where noise coming from the gas based fire suppression system going off destroyed hard drives [1]. 1. https://www.theregister.com/2018/04/26/decibels_destroy_disk...

I've also seen a weird video (lost to time unfortunately), where someone showed that they could yell at their servers in a data centre and introduce errors (or something similar). Was very strange to see, but they had a console up clearly showing that it was having an impact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDacjrSCeq4&fmt=18

Re: Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

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Post by saagarjha »

jhugo wrote: post #110
NorwegianDude wrote: post #90

I can't see anything about a fire suppression system mentioned? Doesn't OVH have one, except for colocation datacenters? A fire detection system using eg. lasers and Inergen(or Argonite) for putting the fire out is commonly used in datacenters. The gas fills the room and reduces the amount of oxygen in the room so most fires are put out within a minute. The cool thing is that the gas is designed to be used in rooms w…

At a datacentre I used to visit years ago, part of the site induction was learning that if the fire suppression alarm went off, you had a certain amount of time to get out of the room before the argon would deploy, so you should always have a path to the nearest exit in mind. The implication was that it wasn't safe to be in the room once it deployed, but I don't know for sure.

Presumably you would have trouble breathing as it displaced the oxygen in the room?

Re: Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

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Post by softblush »

gameshot911 wrote: post #49
nerdbaggy wrote: post #35

Here is some pics of what it looked like before, spg 1-4 , and it’s history https://baxtel.com/data-center/ovh-strasbourg-campus

Is it just my laptop or is only ~40% of vertical screen real-estate dedicated to the actual content? :<

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