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Thought these places....

By pctechxp Posted Monday 4th August 2008 17:42 GMT

were supposed to have ruddy great diesel generators that are suppoed to kick in if the power fails.

If the ATS fails then surely they can manually switch it cant they?

Perhaps data centre operators need to stop banging on about how resiliant they are as its not true obviously.

@pctechxp

By Anonymous Coward Posted Monday 4th August 2008 21:22 GMT

Actually, this place has ruddy great flywheels attached to ruddy great diesel generators - Diesel Rotary UPS, DRUPS. Unfortunately it was a problem with these that appeared to cause the outage. In trying to take the DRUPS out of line and switching to raw mains power they caused a 90sec outage. Not much but enough to cause universal mayhem.