Posts by Mvdb

I am not sure why most of the comments and the UK press are so negative on BA. I am from the Netherlands and just want to know what happened. Reading a lot of nonsense in the newspapers.

Human error based on a single source. Denied by the contracor. Does any newspaper check facts or they do not care and just publish?

There are many documented failures of power in datacenters. So BA is certainly not alone. An overview here http://up2v.nl/2017/06/02/datacenter-complete-power-failures/

And a detailed post about what went wrong here. Hope someone will learn from it

http://up2v.nl/2017/05/29/what-went-wrong-in-british-airways-datacenter/

Another update to my reconstruction of what went wrong:

An UPS in one of BA London datacenters failed for some reason. As a result, systems went down. Power was restored within minutes however not gradually. As a result a power surge happened which damaged servers and networking equipment. This resulted in many systems down and Enterprise Service Bus.

http://up2v.nl/2017/05/29/what-went-wrong-in-british-airways-datacenter/

Big question: why wasn't a failover to the other datacenter initiated?