Environmental Design
You should design the venue that contains the components of a highly available system to reduce or eliminate outages that are the result of environmental effects. Loss of power, excessive heat, floods, and fire can cause system outages. Place the system in a location where people can work safely. Consider the following environmental design tasks and features:
Define the procedures to be used when an environmental failure occurs. Test these procedures regularly.
Implement redundant power sources. Uninterruptible power supplies (UPSs), generators, and multiple power grid connections help provide power supply redundancy. If possible, use separate power feeds with different paths to multiple substations to help eliminate the failure ...
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