Prepping for Tropical Storm Hanna and maybe Hurricane Ike

by Philip Sellers September 4, 2008

written by Philip Sellers September 4, 2008

My week at HTC has been filled with hurricane contengency planning and preparation. For the most part, HTC is in a good state with two connected datacenters about 15 miles from each other and real-time replication for much of our data.

Most of our planning is revolving around protecting the things that aren’t stretched or don’t have good roll-over plans between data centers. In the past year, we’ve closed the gap on a lot of things that didn’t exist or couldn’t easily roll between datacenters. VMware has been a big portion of that change and it makes disaster recovery much better.

Today we’re running full backups and preparing and full set of backup tapes to be physically taken away with one of our managers and preparing to move a few redundant servers to the contengency site as a safety precaution.

I’m interested – what are your preparations and what things would you be doing in our situation?

Philip Sellers

Phil is a Solutions Architect at XenTegra, based in Charlotte, NC, with over 20 years of industry experience. He loves solving complex, technology problems by breaking down the impossible into tangible achievements - and by thinking two or three steps ahead of where we are today. He has spent most of my career as an infrastructure technologist in hands-on roles, even while serving as a leader. His perspective is one of servant leadership, working with his team to build something greater collectively. Having been lucky to have many opportunities and doorways opened during his career - Phil has a diverse background as a programmer, a writer, an analyst all while staying grounded in infrastructure technology.

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