Information Technology Services

Mason Power Outage ITS Service Impacts

Outage category: Applications, Banner, Website, Wired Network, Wireless Network

Location: Fairfax Data Center

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Power outage at 6:45PM which resulted in cooling issues within Data Center. Hosts within Data Center are preemptively powered off to avoid damage from heat at 8:20PM.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

Preemptive powering down of EIS hardware supporting Virtual Machines within Data Center.

Resolution

Cooling was fixed with help from facilities to re-enable chilled water to the Data Center.

Prevention

Data Center Operations is working with Facilities to better respond to these incidents and assist with preventative work.