OVH CEO Octave Klaba speaking about the incident [video]

Post by WrtCdEvrydy » Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 10:00 AM UTC

mikepurvis wrote: post #34

deftnerd wrote: post #23

Are there industry options or methods of wiring to allow for a UPS room separate from the actual rooms the racks are stored in? It's almost tradition to have a rack with UPS's in the bottom and then the rest of the space filled with servers or drive arrays. We wouldn't ever think of putting a tiny backup generator in the bottom of every rack, so why do we put a battery storage system there? Also, with the advances in…

For the extreme opposite of that, Google famously trolled everyone 10 years ago by announcing that every one of their servers had its own in-chassis 12V battery: https://www.cnet.com/news/google-uncloaks-once-secret-server...

Post by wumms » Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 10:26 AM UTC

mattbee wrote: post #95

brmgb wrote: post #84

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> oxygen replacing suppressants No, they are a major risk to the employees working there. I would much rather have a data center destroyed by for every twenty years without victims than mandating the user of oxygen replacing fire suppressants.

My old company's DC uses FM200 gas which puts fires out without asphyxiating anyone (I'm assuming the experience would be a respiratory workout for anyone caught in it, but it would have cost £20000 to test).

Post by Mauricebranagh » Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 10:32 AM UTC

brmgb wrote: post #84

bayindirh wrote: post #52

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If you're running an IT operation this big, you should have both fire detection units and oxygen replacing suppressants. That should be mandatory. Otherwise, it'd be very hard to contain. Especially when all your servers have RAID controllers with Li-Ion batteries or supercapacitors or other extremely trigger-happy components. Oh, and cooling systems. You're just kindling the fire with it at the beginning.

> oxygen replacing suppressants No, they are a major risk to the employees working there. I would much rather have a data center destroyed by for every twenty years without victims than mandating the user of oxygen replacing fire suppressants.

Post by jve » Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 10:45 AM UTC

bzzzt wrote: post #102

deftnerd wrote: post #23

Are there industry options or methods of wiring to allow for a UPS room separate from the actual rooms the racks are stored in? It's almost tradition to have a rack with UPS's in the bottom and then the rest of the space filled with servers or drive arrays. We wouldn't ever think of putting a tiny backup generator in the bottom of every rack, so why do we put a battery storage system there? Also, with the advances in…

I've been led around a DC in the Netherlands where they used a separate room for the UPS batteries. Not only because of safety but because the reliability of small rack-mount UPSes really sucks (and you have to match them to the power draw of the servers in the rack or pay for a lot of unused capacity) All racks and servers were connected to dual power feeds, so even when one of the feeds goes down the servers should…

Post by Dylan16807 » Fri, Mar 12, 2021, 10:50 AM UTC

fanf2 wrote: post #67

jacquesm wrote: post #64

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You would be using Halon injection in a normal DC, after sufficient warning to employees to gtfo if they hadn't done that already.

Not halon any more, but instead an ozone-friendly fire suppression gas such as argonite