[LINK] virgin blue outage

[Rachel Polanskis]

Hi,
I was in a meeting today, with some product vendors whose name starts with the 15th letter of the alphabet.   We briefly discussed the virgin blue airline checkout crash.   Apparently, 
those in the know told us that the problem was caused by a netapp data server that uses 
solid state (ssd) disk drives in the array.  According the the guy that I spoke to, this was 
a new system that is arguably using bleeding edge hardware and the issue was caused by
firmware mismatches on the drives themselves, vs the netapp RAID layer.  How true this 
is I do not know, but the people concerned did seem to have some knowledge of the event...


rachel

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rachel polanskis 
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