Aug
24
2009
As heat rises in France Equinix facility suffers cooling outage
Posted by: Dedicated Servers in Uncategorized, tags: Centre France, Chiller System, Chillers, Customer Services, Equinix, Face, Heat Wave, Ibx, Indirect Effect, Internet Community Forum, Paris 2, Paris Area, St Denis France, Temperatures, WhirAs France continues to face a heat wave, a Paris-area Equinix data centre has suffered a cooling outage, leaving some customer services offline for hours. Equinix used backup cooling units to cool the facility and regain control of the second floor of its Paris 2 IBX data centre in St. Denis, France.
“Multiple chillers that support the second floor failed, and the standby chiller system did not start in time to absorb the load,” Equinix France general manager Michel Brignano explained in a report posted to the FrNOG Internet community forum. “This impacted temperatures on the second floor and had indirect effect on the ground floor as well.”
Source: The WHIR
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