glad it isn't my problem

[timwilky]

So there has been a failure on the SAN in one of our data centres. Over 400 servers are down.

Somebody has got a lot of egg on their face. I advised against relocating national servers to an overseas site but was told to get with the consolidation programme.

Schadenfreude is living well within me today.

[Richie]

schadenfreude :- German for 'happiness at the misfortune of others'

"I told you it was a fu*king stupid idea, but you didn't listen to me and did it anyway. And now that it's all gone wrong, you want *me* to fix it".

Originally Posted by timwilky

I advised against relocating national servers to an overseas site but was told to get with the consolidation programme.

why do you think that the SAN would have not failed if it was not offshored?

[Sir Trev]

It was so hard not to laugh in a meeting a few months ago when our glorious migration programme manager told us the SAP boxes we'd be using were based in the US. The guys from the MoD, MoJ and DWP accounts looked at each other, smiled, and asked who was going to fund the separate box for them. Our overlords had overlooked the fact that the data for government accounts has to stay in the UK. The look on the programme manager's face was so funny.

That lack of planning put the timeline back by nearly a year and oddly the guy still has a job...

A lot of our data halls and server rooms have been consolidated though without much problem. As long as you check first for contractual issues (!) most customers don't care where the hardware sits as long as we can do it cheaper than they coould do it themselves and it meets data transfer SLAs. And access controls obviously...