I did get an email yesterday around 16h00 GMT.
It was pretty generic, the only new thing it contained (for me at least) was the FAQ regarding this incident.
SBG1 and SBG4: we are planning to bring these datacentres and the network room onlinenext week.
SBG3: we are planning to bring this datacentre online in 1-2 weeks.
I'm not an OVH customer, are these building names? It seems a bit confusing that a datacentre doesn't correspond to an availability zone or is this typical at large scale?
SBG is OVH Strasbourg, a complex of data centres that are adjacent to each other, but which were not built at the same time and are architecturally not the same. Yes, SBG1-4 are the different buildings. Some of them are made from stacked shipping containers, but SBG2 was an actual building.
SBG2 basically burned to the ground. The fire also spread into SBG1 if I remember correctly: parts of SBG1 were destroyed but some parts are intact. SBG3 and 4 are also intact. Under the circumstances the entire complex is offline at the moment though, which is not surprising given the scale of the fire and the firefighter response. The photos reminded me of the WTC attack, which shut down lower Manhattan for months.
SBG2 was built like a vertical tunnel, a quadrangle of server rooms with a huge air shaft in the middle, intended to convection-cool the servers through the natural motion of the rising air through it as the air was warmed by the servers. In this case it may have resulted in something like a firestorm, where the fire maintained its own airflow through that column.
I'd be interested to know if there is any hope and/or intention in this situation to recover possibly-operable hard drives from the charred servers for data recovery purposes.
I couldn't believe the complaints about the audio in that mp4. I could understand him perfectly well except a few times his accent got in the way. Better audio wouldn't have mattered much.
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I did get an email yesterday around 16h00 GMT. It was pretty generic, the only new thing it contained (for me at least) was the FAQ regarding this incident.
https://help.ovhcloud.com/en-gb/faq/strasbourg-incident/?xto...
Following some links, I saw
I'm not an OVH customer, are these building names? It seems a bit confusing that a datacentre doesn't correspond to an availability zone or is this typical at large scale?SBG is OVH Strasbourg, a complex of data centres that are adjacent to each other, but which were not built at the same time and are architecturally not the same. Yes, SBG1-4 are the different buildings. Some of them are made from stacked shipping containers, but SBG2 was an actual building.
SBG2 basically burned to the ground. The fire also spread into SBG1 if I remember correctly: parts of SBG1 were destroyed but some parts are intact. SBG3 and 4 are also intact. Under the circumstances the entire complex is offline at the moment though, which is not surprising given the scale of the fire and the firefighter response. The photos reminded me of the WTC attack, which shut down lower Manhattan for months.
SBG2 was built like a vertical tunnel, a quadrangle of server rooms with a huge air shaft in the middle, intended to convection-cool the servers through the natural motion of the rising air through it as the air was warmed by the servers. In this case it may have resulted in something like a firestorm, where the fire maintained its own airflow through that column.
I'd be interested to know if there is any hope and/or intention in this situation to recover possibly-operable hard drives from the charred servers for data recovery purposes.
I couldn't believe the complaints about the audio in that mp4. I could understand him perfectly well except a few times his accent got in the way. Better audio wouldn't have mattered much.