Comments on: Our Virtual Data Center Tour http://blog.theplanet.com/2007/05/22/our-virtual-data-center-tour/ Welcome To The Planet's Weblog! Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:07:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: alek http://blog.theplanet.com/2007/05/22/our-virtual-data-center-tour/#comment-1453 alek Mon, 28 May 2007 05:51:35 +0000 http://blog.theplanet.com/2007/05/22/virtual-data-center-tour-%e2%80%a6-better-than-a-rub-and-sniff-ad/#comment-1453 As someone who has managed datacenters before (although nothing the size of ThePlanet), that was a good writeup. You might consider tossing a few pictures up so people can see what it looks like. Be sure to get one of the back-side of the servers and/or network gear - it's hard not to have at least a bit of a rats-nest there. Good luck providing us a "smell" via our browser! ;-) Can't say I've ever seen a "rainbow cable" ... although I saw a pretty nifty real-life one a few weeks ago - http://www.komar.org/faq/rainbows/ As someone who has managed datacenters before (although nothing the size of ThePlanet), that was a good writeup. You might consider tossing a few pictures up so people can see what it looks like. Be sure to get one of the back-side of the servers and/or network gear - it’s hard not to have at least a bit of a rats-nest there. Good luck providing us a “smell” via our browser! ;-)
Can’t say I’ve ever seen a “rainbow cable” … although I saw a pretty nifty real-life one a few weeks ago - http://www.komar.org/faq/rainbows/

]]> By: Tommah http://blog.theplanet.com/2007/05/22/our-virtual-data-center-tour/#comment-1452 Tommah Tue, 22 May 2007 21:44:10 +0000 http://blog.theplanet.com/2007/05/22/virtual-data-center-tour-%e2%80%a6-better-than-a-rub-and-sniff-ad/#comment-1452 Hey Brooke, that's a cool message. I first visited a competing datacenter last year, however it was not kept as well as yours, with insufficient air filtering and it was quite dusty and seemed randomly laid out. I'm glad to see you keep your datacenters in good shape. Would you be able to tell us what the people do in your 'mission control' and some pictures? What types of things they look at on their screens, and how super fast they are at fixing things? That would be nice :) Tommah Hey Brooke, that’s a cool message.
I first visited a competing datacenter last year, however it was not kept as well as yours, with insufficient air filtering and it was quite dusty and seemed randomly laid out.

I’m glad to see you keep your datacenters in good shape.

Would you be able to tell us what the people do in your ‘mission control’ and some pictures? What types of things they look at on their screens, and how super fast they are at fixing things? That would be nice :)
Tommah

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