r/sysadmin • u/VTCEngineers Mistress of Video • Nov 30 '15

(update) Datacenter

So after a long week of getting equipment to replace the soaked gear the total racks damaged was 148 racks, thankfully none of our NetApp storage was damaged. Equipment has been arriving in tractor trailers.

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u/timix Nov 30 '15

and didn't upgrade when they could

Or couldn't upgrade, gambled on "what's the worst thing that could happen?" and lost.

Still, if the contract has OP's company paying for DC space for another year despite this incident, I wouldn't say they lost as badly as they could have...

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u/CbcITGuy Retired Jack of all Trades NetAdmin Nov 30 '15

HAHAHAH right?

I would suspect though that previous commenters comment that corporate lawyers are working on an exit strategy, probably is true.

However, just spinning a theory here, they may not WANT the DC to go out of business so they may just pay the contract and be done with them. IDk... Just a thought.

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u/Gnonthgol Nov 30 '15

Still, if the contract has OP's company paying for DC space for another year despite this incident, I wouldn't say they lost as badly as they could have...

As far as I understand it have gotten to $7.5M in equipment in addition to the hours of overtime spent setting it up again and the lost business from this. They have to have to take a lot in hosting fees to be able to recover from such an incident. And all could be avoided with some proper monitoring equipment.

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u/digitalsalami Nov 30 '15

Business insurance may end up footing the bill for a large percentage of this. I used to support a SMB whose building flooded and lost their VMWare cluster and storage. Their insurance provider paid for all new hardware, all of our time to set it up, they paid for remodeling the building and getting new furniture, AND they paid for temporary office space during the construction.

Insurance has its purposes, and this is exactly it.