Hey buddy, can you spare not to have a spare?…..
I will always think of one word in particular when I think of this recent memorial day weekend…….Spare.
I hosted 25 people for a BBQ on Sunday, and things were going great until the gas ran out as I was cooking the appetizers. Thankfully I always have a spare gas tank, and 5 minutes later we were back in action.
Then. on Monday afternoon I received some SMS and email alerts from our monitoring system that a few of our app servers had stopped responding to queries. Since it was a few app VM’s which failed I went straight to our HP based SAN, which would not respond to either SSH or web access, even ILO showed it as being up. I began to get very nervous thinking about the risk of data corruption on our multi terabyte array…..
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