Environmental
As the name implies, environmental disasters are ones in which the environment of the
server has been affected in some way. These can come in a wide range of variations. Here
are a few real-life scenarios I??™ve encountered:
??? Poor server-room design: I once encountered a client who had poor ventilation
within the server room. It wasn??™t out of negligence; the server environment simply
grew more quickly than the client??™s capacity to house it. Due to the heat, servers
would fail randomly throughout the day.
??? Natural disaster: A tornado swept through southern Wisconsin, randomly destroying
buildings (as they like to do). One of the buildings it hit had servers in it, which
ended up in pieces in trees more than a mile away.
??? Accident: A water pipe running close to a rather large (and well-constructed) server
room burst, flooding the floor. Luckily, the flooding was contained and only a few
items were affected; however, some of those items were terminals to manage the
servers themselves. This was before Microsoft came out with its Terminal Services
product, so there was no means of managing them other than hooking heavy CRT
monitors to each server.
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