Morning Reading - Loud noise knocks out ING data center

[Patrick]

This is a good read: ING Bank's main data center was shut down by a loud noise

Now all the SSD guys need to do is come up with closer price parity so we can go all flash even in slower tiers of capacity storage. (QDR!)

 

[MiniKnight]

Reminds me of the guy yelling at the Sun server:

 

[cperalt1]

Don't forget the heatmaps you can create using D-Trace to see the effect of shouting at your servers.

 

[Jon Massey]

It's happened a couple of times before, once in Aus and once in Switzerland (IIRC). Surprised it's still happening!

 

[BLinux]

what i don't get is how it shut down an entire data center? or are the reports exaggerating? you'd think a large bank would have multiple levels of redundancy so that if a site went dark, it would automatically cut over to other available sites? or did they do the same testing at all sites at the same time?

 

[whitey]

Don't forget the heatmaps you can create using D-Trace to see the effect of shouting at your servers.

Not heatmaps per say but I believe vibration affecting/directly correlating to latency if memory serves me correct but I'll let ya slide :-D

Makes ya wonder if ALL datacenters at 'some decibel boiling point' suffer from this increased latency due to 10's-100's of thousand spinning disks/servers roaring? Maybe I'm just paranoid but yeah another reason to go all flash! I'd imagine noise ='s vibration ='s latency correct?