Gyron Blog » Videos http://blog.gyron.net Purveyors of fine quality datacentre services since 2000. Tue, 11 May 2010 16:56:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 en hourly 1 Centro generator snow start test http://blog.gyron.net/bloggery/centro-generator-snow-start-test/ http://blog.gyron.net/bloggery/centro-generator-snow-start-test/#comments Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:30:00 +0000 Robin Balen - Gyron http://blog.gyron.net/?p=584 As part of our extensive Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedule at our Centro datacentre facility, we run start tests on our generators every two weeks.

These generators provide stand-by power in the unlikely event of a utility outage on both HV supplies to the datacentre. We store enough diesel on-site to run the entire facility for around 4 days, and we have fuel resupply agreements with multiple fuel providers to ensure we can continue operating from generator power even in case of a prolonged outage.

We posted an image of the snow that had settled at Centro over on our Twitter page (over a foot deep in most places!), but as a generator start test was scheduled for today, we’ve uploaded the CCTV footage as an extra bonus:

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Our generators are constantly heated and their starter batteries kept fully charged to ensure they are available as quickly as possible to provide backup power to our facility.

During this start test, the outside temperature was around -1C, and both generators started, synced and closed their breakers on to our main switchgear in 18 seconds, well within normal operating tolerances (we have battery supplies for our UPS system to last around 10 minutes before the generators kick in). The generators are run for around 30 minutes, during which time the on-board management computers are checked to ensure that there are no faults.

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]]> http://blog.gyron.net/bloggery/centro-generator-snow-start-test/feed/ 0 Centro office fit-out time lapse video http://blog.gyron.net/videos/centro-office-fit-out-time-lapse-video/ http://blog.gyron.net/videos/centro-office-fit-out-time-lapse-video/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:10:44 +0000 Robin Balen - Gyron http://blog.gyron.net/?p=271 As previously promised, here’s a time lapse video of the Centro office fit-out… about 2 months work compressed in to two and a half minutes!

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Stay tuned for more details soon!

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]]> http://blog.gyron.net/news/teaser-trailer-for-new-centro-datacentre/feed/ 0 Gyron relocates 300 servers and key network infrastructure for Titan Internet to new colocation space http://blog.gyron.net/news/gyron-relocates-300-servers-and-key-network-infrastructure-for-titan-internet-to-new-colocation-space/ http://blog.gyron.net/news/gyron-relocates-300-servers-and-key-network-infrastructure-for-titan-internet-to-new-colocation-space/#comments Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:52:43 +0000 Ben Miller - Gyron http://blog.gyron.net/?p=28 Last weekend, we completed a server and infrastructure relocation project for Titan Internet, an existing colocation customer who has taken a significant amount of expansion space in our new colocation suite in the LHC.

Titan produced this time-lapse video taken from their old colocation site, which they’ve kindly let us post here:

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Between 11PM Friday and 6AM Saturday, and 11PM Saturday and 6AM Sunday we relocated 300 servers and dozens of switches, routers and firewalls from their existing colocation space to our new suite. Servers were moved by own our team of 10 highly trained engineers, plus 3 Titan staff, and were moved in batches to ensure that no individual server was off-line for more than 4 hours.

We’re pleased to announce that the average period of downtime per server throughout the move was 2 hours, and the move was completed without a single instance of hardware failure.

If you would like more information on our range of managed datacenter services, including infrastructure relocation projects, please contact our sales team!

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]]> http://blog.gyron.net/news/gyron-relocates-300-servers-and-key-network-infrastructure-for-titan-internet-to-new-colocation-space/feed/ 0 Time-lapse video showing LHC 2nd floor rack fit-out http://blog.gyron.net/news/time-lapse-video-showing-lhc-2nd-floor-rack-fit-out/ http://blog.gyron.net/news/time-lapse-video-showing-lhc-2nd-floor-rack-fit-out/#comments Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:37:56 +0000 Robin Balen - Gyron http://blog.gyron.net/?p=11 We recently fitted out around 2,200 sq ft of new datacenter space at the London Hosting Center.

After the core plant equipment (e.g. air conditioning down-flow units, FM200 fire suppression etc) was installed, the IP CCTV cameras went up and we were able to grab images to make the following time-lapse movie showing all 68 APC NetShelter enclosures being installed over a 4 day period:

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Thanks to all of our techs on-site and our fit-out contractors for the hard work getting this new suite online!

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