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Telling tales of data center horrors this Halloween

October 31 is coming up soon, so it’s time for costume parties, haunted houses, and your favorite scary movies. Halloween stories are frighteningly fun during parties or wrapped up in a blanket at home—we all love a good Dracula or Frankenstein tale!

In the spirit of Halloween, we may tell stories of things going “bump” in the night, but nothing’s as terrifying to tech pros as things that go bump in the data center.

To celebrate Halloween this year, we want to know your scariest, most goosebump-inducing data center fears and anecdotes that not only scare you this season, but year-round. Did you have a mishap with a chiller, HVAC, generator, or branch circuit? Or did something outside the data center affect your ability to conduct business as usual?

Tell us your scary stories and how you fought against these spooky tales by Friday, October 11 and we’ll put 250 THWACK points in your account.

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  • The first thing that comes to mind is the time we (a co-worker and myself) were working in the sever room putting in a new server. My co-worker said hey look at this and touched a light on one of the servers (not the one we are working on) and the server shuts down. Mind you this was the server in vCenter that hosted Email and our main network drive. The servers power button was a sensor ... not a push a sensor. This was the first of many times this person shutdown that server by "looking at the power button" according to him. I have since removed that server from vCenter and setup failover. This still haunts me to this day, as a lot of the new servers are sensors not an actual push button.

    Second on that comes to mind. We have a remote office in Houston TX and if you know the area you probably know what I am talking about. Every time there is heavy rain or hurricane or something similar our office floods with about a foot of water. Luckily in this area all the buildings do not have any electrical low on the wall. We have started to have bets on how much rain it take to flood the office. So far if its 3 inches in an hour the office will start to flood. So when we have bad weather in Houston, i dont hold my breath.

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  • The first thing that comes to mind is the time we (a co-worker and myself) were working in the sever room putting in a new server. My co-worker said hey look at this and touched a light on one of the servers (not the one we are working on) and the server shuts down. Mind you this was the server in vCenter that hosted Email and our main network drive. The servers power button was a sensor ... not a push a sensor. This was the first of many times this person shutdown that server by "looking at the power button" according to him. I have since removed that server from vCenter and setup failover. This still haunts me to this day, as a lot of the new servers are sensors not an actual push button.

    Second on that comes to mind. We have a remote office in Houston TX and if you know the area you probably know what I am talking about. Every time there is heavy rain or hurricane or something similar our office floods with about a foot of water. Luckily in this area all the buildings do not have any electrical low on the wall. We have started to have bets on how much rain it take to flood the office. So far if its 3 inches in an hour the office will start to flood. So when we have bad weather in Houston, i dont hold my breath.

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