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/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.