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USS 7110 apacolypse

We utilize a USS7110 for the ability to have shared storage to our 2 ESX servers, via iSCSI. For the most part the device is rather tremendous. The other part... well, not so much. As it turns out the USS7110 is actually just a Sun x4240 running Solaris 11 and 16 HDDs. 2 for the OS, and the rest for data.  Our array was configured to use Double Parity with a spare. Very good resiliency with minimal sacrifice of space, IMO. The city of Wayzata sent out their Dream Team to do something involving machinery and digging, etc.. in front of our building. Even though there are literally hundreds of those little flags marking whatever it is they mark, they somehow managed to go through the power feed, apparently. The UPS did not signal to the ESX servers or the Array to shutdown.. so everything just simply crashed. This happens quite frequently so I figured it was not a big deal. I was horribly mistaken. The actual significance of what took place is probably quite min...