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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 mmauri »

Shank wrote: post #67

A status update on the OVH tracker for a different datacenter (LIM-1 / Limburg) says "We are going to intervene in the rack to replace a large number of power supply cables that could have an insulation defect." [0][1] The same type of issue is "planned" in BHS [3] and GRA [2]. Eerie timing: do they possibly suspect some bad cables? [0]: http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=details&id=49016 [1]: http://travaux.ovh.net/?do=deta…

We have several bare-metal servers on GRA/Gravelines & RBX/Roubaix, 3 weeks ago we had a 3h downtime on RBX because they were replacing power cords without previous notification. Maybe they were aware this could happen, and were in the process to fix it

Re: Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

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Post by shog_hn »

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…

Self-hosted Kuberenetes and a FreeNAS storage system at home, and a couple of VMs in the cloud. I've got a mixed strategy, but it covers everything to remote locations.

I use S3 API compatible object storage platforms for remote backup. E.g. BackBlaze B2. I wrote about my backup scripts for FreeNAS (jail that runs s3cmd to copy files to B2) here: https://www.shogan.co.uk/cloud-2/cheap-s3-cloud-backup-with-...

For Kuberenetes I use velero which can be configured with an S3 storage backend target: https://www.shogan.co.uk/kubernetes/kubernetes-backup-on-ras...

Re: Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

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Post by jjjeii3 »

White collar jobs are not paid well in the EU. If a saleswoman from a nearby shop has the same salary, why should I care about the quality of my work at all? The entire data center burned down? Fine! There are a lot of other places with the same tiny salary.

As you can see below, a developer expert is only making 24K-63K Euro per year at OVH (in US dollar it's almost the same amount):

https://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/OVHcloud-France-Salaries-EI...

after paying taxes you will only get a half of that amount.

Re: Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

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Post by RantyDave »

eb0la wrote: post #226
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

I'm surprised to see how close the DCs are to the river. Fortunately it's in the high part of the river, less prone to overflow.

Maybe quite handy for water cooling?

Re: Fire declared in OVH SBG2 datacentre building

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Post by rini17 »

pmontra wrote: post #142
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…

What's the point of a fire suppression system that destroys what it should protect?

When it destroys one room but prevents fire spreading to whole building.

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Post by sgeisler »

nikanj wrote: post #146

According to the official status page, the whole datacenter is still green http://status.ovh.com/vms/index_sbg2.html

It seems to be a static site, which seems reasonable since it aggregates a lot of data and might encounter high load when something goes wrong, so generating it live without caching is not viable. So maybe the server that normally updates it is down too (not that this would be a good excuse)?

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Post by weeeeelp »

kuschku wrote: post #222
rgj wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They did not have a fire suppression system, only smoke detection. So yeah, they missed something.

Which is understandable, as Halon based fire suppression systems have been illegal for quite some time :/

There are non-Halon systems, using agents such as FM-200. Those are not as toxic and do not destroy the ozone layer.
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