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I really don't know what the proper procedure should be in a data center when the big klaxon goes off and you here those fateful words over the intercom, "Close all doors, DIVE, DIVE, DIVE!"


If it is a halon equipped datacenter you listen. And then do as it says. Quickly.


So true, my first experience with halon was a briefing at IBM about their machine room policies (I was a student intern) and they stressed that when the fire alarm went off, even if you knew there wasn't a fire, you evacuated the room because when the halon dumped if you didn't have your own source of oxygen it was game over.




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