Comment by detaro
5 years ago
Although the difference here is that loosing connection and out-of-band for a single data center shouldn't be as catastrophic for Facebook, so your examples would be tolerable?
5 years ago
Although the difference here is that loosing connection and out-of-band for a single data center shouldn't be as catastrophic for Facebook, so your examples would be tolerable?
That's the trick, though: if you don't do that level of planning for all of your datacenters and POPs (and fiber huts out in the middle of nowhere), it's inevitable that the one you most need to access during an outage will be the one where your OOB got backhoe'd.
Murphy is a jerk.