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What's the dumbest thing you've ever seen in a data center?
Data centers are great places to work, and hopefully most are built and managed well. But sometimes things go wrong! Maybe you've used a new supplier, or its the fault of a new hire, or maybe its just bad luck.
So , what's the dumbest thing you've seen in a data center?
Photo/Video evidence would be nice :-)
One Rule! No specific mention of the data center, nor the supplier, nor the name of the staff in question! :-)
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Permalink Reply by Ray on -
Recently:
A cheap switch connected with ports 2&3 looped.
Reflection and network crippled
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Permalink Reply by Debra Robertson on -
Duct tape over ports to keep the line rate that was sold to them - no joke.
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Permalink Reply by Mike Salviski on -
Water sprinklers
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Permalink Reply by Chuck Cohen on -
AMEN!
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Permalink Reply by Chuck Cohen on
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water or glycol cooled HVAC/CRAC units without redundant exterior ventilation or back-up chiller/condenser systems.
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Permalink Reply by Chuck Cohen on
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24 or more "legacy" 1U height servers stuffed into a single cabinet with no regard for heat-load or power consumption issues, with the accompanying excuse, "We don't want to waste any valuable space"!
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Permalink Reply by Chuck Cohen on
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discovering the reason a server lost network connectivity was due to someone re-using an ethernet patch cable with a broke-off retention clip on the RJ connector, and the connector slid-out of the jack on the server just enough to lose connection.
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Permalink Reply by Paul Poetsma on -
A stack of 4 servers, 2 DAS devices and a switch on top of a single 1U rackmounted server. They were short on rails or other rack mounting equipment so stacking was the easiest way forward.
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