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Re:Moved a server from one building to another with zero dow... by jfcorbett on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @11:10AM (#24061663)
Reminds me of the time where IT at a previous employer told us that due to a "new IT strategy", our production cluster that had been sitting comfortably in the basement for years had to be moved to an "approved IT hub facility"... in another office 500 km away and across the North Sea.

There was downtime.

Promptly after our cluster settled into this wonderful new facility, a cooling pipe in the ceiling leaked on it, frying 1/3 of our nodes.

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Re:Moved a server from one building to another with zero dow... by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @02:45PM (#24064118)
On a personal selfish level I was quite happy to see our workloads moving to datacenters that we couldn't (reasonably) physically access, because it replaced "can you go drive to the DC and replace a failing disk" with "we put in the request for smart hands to replace the failing disk". Of course, there's some notable tradeoffs, but it makes me feel better when the business decides to do such things...
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