Growing Pains-Building for the future
Well as many of you know our new Server Room/Datacenter is in the construction phase. Yesterday the Electricians were on site to wire in the additional ATS (automatic transfer switch) for the generator, which is great… We have to install the new ATS so we can have the entire power load of the new Datacenter on the generator….
Well we might say that is all good news… Except our staff was off campus all day for our Staff Christmas party and I found out after the fact the electricians cut the power that feeds the existing ATS. This ATS powers our emergency lighting and temporarily parts of our old Server room.
Well long story short our soon to be replaced battery backups don’t last 45 minutes and they are consumer grade units so the software doesn’t scale to the number of devices we have plugged into them….so take a guess what happened.
Can anyone else guess what time the power went out?
We can’t get relocated to the new Datacenter soon enough!