I have a horror story from another IT person. One day they were tasked with adding a new server to a rack in their data center. They added the server... being careful to not bump a cable to the nearby production servers, SAN, and network switch. The physical install went well. But when they powered on the server, the ENTIRE RACK went dark. Customers were not happy:( IT turns out that the power circuit they attached the server to was already at max capacity and thus they caused the breaker to trip. Lessons learned... use redundant power and monitor power consumption,
Another issue was being a newbie on a Cisco switch and making a few changes and thinking the innocent sounding "reload" command would work like Linux does when you restart a daemon. Watching 48 link activity LEDs go dark on your vmware cluster switch... Priceless
I have a horror story from another IT person. One day they were tasked with adding a new server to a rack in their data center. They added the server... being careful to not bump a cable to the nearby production servers, SAN, and network switch. The physical install went well. But when they powered on the server, the ENTIRE RACK went dark. Customers were not happy:( IT turns out that the power circuit they attached the server to was already at max capacity and thus they caused the breaker to trip. Lessons learned... use redundant power and monitor power consumption,
Another issue was being a newbie on a Cisco switch and making a few changes and thinking the innocent sounding "reload" command would work like Linux does when you restart a daemon. Watching 48 link activity LEDs go dark on your vmware cluster switch... Priceless