Outage, unknown Monday 14th October 2024 11:47:36


We are aware of an outage at Equinix FR7, technicians are checking

rt-qfx10k-fkt is up since 12:48, 14.10.2024.

The device was connected to the same power circuit. Equinix plugged in all four power cords back in June, but the technician didn't notice that the device was connected to the same power circuit.

We requested Equinix to plug the rt-qfx10k-fkt in to both power feeds. Power is now evenly being spread between both circuits.

The high temperature alerts started at 11:25 CEST on 14.10.2024, indicating that there was a mechanical disturbance.

This has been confirmed by Equinix:

The IBX has experienced a Mechanical Disturbance and IBX personnel are currently investigating the issue. Service Offering: FR7 - Mechanical - Cooling Zone Affected Assets: 01:2:Z13:Z13, 01:2:Z16:Z16, 0G:3:Z17:Z17, 0G:3:Z17:Z19, 0G:3:Z18:Z18 Asset Condition: Failed to operate Current system redundancy: TBD Situation status: Under investigation Resources on site/pending: N/A Generator fuel run time (hrs): TBD Current colo humidity RH status: TBD Current colo temperature status: Temperature increasing, outside SLA

This increase in temperature caused all devices to spin up their fans to 100% and tripped the breaker on the circuit where rt-qfx10k-fkt was connected.

This cooling issue is not the first one we've seen. The first major incident was back in February. However, this is the first time we actually had an impact on our services.

It seems like this incident might be related to Equinix.

Shortly before the outage, we received a lot of temperature warning alerts and we were about to open a ticket with Equinix.

We are still waiting for them to check if this incident is related.