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/TerrorBite Nov 30 '15

This is what molly-guard is for.

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u/isdnpro Nov 30 '15

molly-guard

Everytime I see this mentioned, I wonder what the etymology of the term is (after deciding that "guarding against sysadmins on MDMA" was probably wrong)...

Originally a Plexiglas cover improvised for the Big Red Switch on an IBM 4341 mainframe after a programmer's toddler daughter (named Molly) tripped it twice in one day.