Came in this morning with IBM to do an update to our DS6800. After an hour, smelled smoke. Got up and saw smoke on the ceiling. Went over to the CE to see what the he** he was doing. He looked at me like what are YOU doing. Then the halen discharged.
About the time we got to the machine room doors, the halon cleared up. I thought it was a bogus discharge. (I still thought the CE was doing something.) Heard some popping noise. One of our Liebert air conditioners shorted out and produced an electrical fire. Fun times. The power didn't drop in the machine room (like it was suppose to). So every thing stayed up. DB2 is running (we have some Saturday users). VM, VSE, Linux systems are still running. The fire department showed up and started "to safe" the system. Fun times.... Been an hour, still somewhat shakey. But my upgrades, to DS6800, DB2 (that I was working on), are still going. Fire Department is still here. Nothing takes these systems down! Looks like Monday, we will have disaster recovery meetings <G>. Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting (still smoking)
