Power Problems Force Seattle To Throttle City Data Center For Days 85
Nerval's Lobster writes with an except from sister site SlashDataCenter: "On Aug. 23, Mayor Mike McGinn of Seattle informed residents that the city would partially shut down its municipal data center for five days including the Labor Day weekend. As a result, city residents will be unable to pay bills, apply for business licenses, or take advantage of other online services. In a Webcast press conference, McGinn isolated the issue as a failure in one of the electrical 'buses' that supplies power to the data center. Because that piece of equipment began overheating, the city had to begin taking servers and applications offline to prevent overloading the system. The maintenance will cost the city $2.1 million of its maintenance budget. A second power bus will remain operational, supplying enough electricity to power redundant systems for critical life and fire safety systems, including 911 services and fire dispatch. The city's Web sites should also be up and running in some capacity."
Hey, so let's post it to Slashdot! (Score:4, Funny)
That should help the situation.
Re:5 days no government, is that so bad? (Score:3, Funny)
The city of Seattle, or any modern city, needs exactly three modern servers to provide their public services. And two of them are to provide redundancy for the one that does the actual work. Internally they may need more servers for VDI or some such, or need to physically isolate one service from another. But one modern server is adequate to provide all of the public services Seattle provides, and two more provide geographic redundancy through their fiber network, which could be upgraded to 100 Gig for a reasonable cost because they own the fiber and the endpoints. The devil is in the I/O, and SSD takes care of that.
But I can't tell them that. I sell their multitudinous departments a lot of servers.
Re:Looking to move to Seattle... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Looking to move to Seattle... (Score:2, Funny)
For those of you not from seattle:
He is complaining that he voted for the democrat instead of the other democrat.