"Hypothetical" Datacenter Overheating

Mon Jan 15 15:04:43 UTC 2024

I think we're beyond "hypothetical" at this point, Mike ... ;)

On 1/15/24 15:49, Mike Hammett wrote:
> Coincidence indeed....   ;-)
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> *From: *"Clayton Zekelman" <clayton at MNSi.Net>
> *To: *"Mike Hammett" <nanog at ics-il.net>, "NANOG" <nanog at nanog.org>
> *Sent: *Monday, January 15, 2024 8:23:37 AM
> *Subject: *Re: "Hypothetical" Datacenter Overheating
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> At 09:08 AM 2024-01-15, Mike Hammett wrote:
>  >Let's say that hypothetically, a datacenter you're in had a cooling
>  >failure and escalated to an average of 120 degrees before
>  >mitigations started having an effect. What are normal QA procedures
>  >on your behalf? What is the facility likely to be doing?
>  >What  should be expected in the aftermath?
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> One would hope they would have had disaster recovery plans to bring
> in outside cold air, and have executed on it quickly, rather than
> hoping the chillers got repaired.
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> All our owned facilities have large outside air intakes, automatic
> dampers and air mixing chambers in case of mechanical cooling
> failure, because cooling systems are often not designed to run well
> in extreme cold.  All of these can be manually run incase of controls
> failure, but people tell me I'm a little obsessive over backup plans
> for backup plans.
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> You will start to see premature failure of equipment over the coming
> weeks/months/years.
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> Coincidentally, we have some gear in a data centre in the Chicago
> area that is experiencing that sort of issue right now... :-(
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