Happy New Year 2013
Happy New Year 2013!
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.
Today’s 30 minute off-load routine generator test passed with no issues. The generator was started manually and ran for 30 minutes with no load connected. The next scheduled on-load generator test is Monday 5th November 2012.
This morning at 8:10am, we started seeing increased latency and packet loss between our network and BT internet. This settled down at 10:34am. Some diagnostics showed the problem to be around the London area, possibly at the interconnect of Global Crossing and BT. BT have raised this as a fault… Continue reading
Yesterday’s routine generator maintenance went fine, followed by a brief on-load generator test.
Today’s generator test was successful. We completed a 20 minute off-load generator test this morning with no faults. Our next sheduled off-load generator test is Monday 24th September 2012. Our next scheduled on-load full generator test is Monday 1st October 2012.