At approximately 7:10am this morning, we experience a commerical power failure of the L2 phase of power entering out Bolton 1 facility. This caused our Generator to take over the entire load of the building. Cooling was maintained via ‘free cooling’ (external filtered air travelling through the building via powerful… Continue reading
Our regular scheduled generator maintenance passed this morning. We ran on full load between 10:15am and 10:50am without issues. All voltage and current tests passed. We will continue with off-load generator tests starting next Monday morning.
Our supplier appears to have completed their maintenance early. The circuit has been back in operation since approx. 10pm without any issues. All traffic restored to its relative preferred path automatically. We will continue to monitor the circuit until the end of the supplier maintenance window (midnight UK local time)… Continue reading
One of our core network partners, Cable&Wireless, are currently performing routine maintenance on one of the segments of our core inter-building networks. All traffic has been automatically diverted via its failover path. During this maintenance window, our resilience is reduced. There is also the possibility of a brief disturbance to… Continue reading
Happy New Year 2013!
We were notified of an outage on one of our backup servers (DT-310) this morning at approximately 9:00am UK local time. The server sufferred a hardware RAID controller failure with its HP SmartArray controller. For the sake of data integrity, the filesystem is performing a full FSCK (filesystem check) and… Continue reading
Today’s full on-load generator test completed successfully. The generator handled the full datacentre load from 10:30am until 11:00am without any issues reported. The next on-load test will be Wednesday 2nd January 2013
Today’s generator test passed without any issues. Approx runtime was 20 minutes off-load.
Our routine weekly generator test completed successfully. We tested the startup and operation of the generator (without load) for approx 15 minutes without issue. The next generator test is next Monday (5th November 2012) and will be a full on-load generator test.
Our weekly off-load generator test completed successfully this morning. It ran (without load) from approx. 10:20am until 10:40am, with its output voltages and frequency monitored. The next scheduled off-load test is Monday 29th October 2012. The next scheduled full on-load test is Monday 5th November 2012.