A TUPPERWARE Party – take 2

A year ago, roughly, we had a major SAN outage; half of all the LUNs on our primary Fiber Channel SAN went belly-up, and  services were down for approximately 36 hours.  That event started us down a long path to a different storage vendor and technology.   

Today, me and some die-hard SAN geeks, met and said goodbye to  the disk subsystem we've affectionately known as TUPPERWARE (in all-caps, 'cause that's how we identify systems, ya dig?).  And yes, at one point we had a ZIPLOC, a HEFTY, and a RUBBERMAID. And PYREX is still humming along in the new DataCenter.

Yes, we had a TUPPERWARE Party. Check below for the festivities!  First up, the storage scene before and after. Our power and cooling requirements just got a heckuva lot lighter in that DataCenter!  Woohoo!

UPDATE: I accidentally deleted my blog directory on GUTENBERG and had to re-create this post.  Sorry for the redundancy!  I'm furiously adding the Backup Client to the server now!

More photos after the break.