Hardware - Can't Live With It, Can't Live Without It
Have you ever had one of those days where everything is going great until *kapow* a piece of hardware stops working properly?
I had that happen to me a few weeks ago - twice!
I had planned out a major migration for my Dev/QA/UAT environment. This involved unistalling SQL Server, recarving a bunch of disk, renaming a few servers, changing the domain on a few servers, then restoring all of the backups that I took.
Things were going along quite well until I tried to reboot one of my servers and it wouldn't come back up. We had to have the hardware vendor come in and bring the machine back to life. Luckily, we didn't lose anything but time.
Then, a few hours later, I rebooted a different server and it wouldn't come back up. At this point, I started to question what I was doing to these poor machines. We got the hardware vendor to bring that box back up. Again, we didn't lose anything but time.
Both of these issues were complete flukes. It just so happens that they both happened during the same migration. Frustrating.
But, at least the new environment is up and running!
Chuck