Green IT: February 2009 Archives
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.
