Fire destroys data center of cloud service provider OVH
Server in OVH data center. (Photo: OVH)
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A data center of the cloud service provider OVH in Strasbourg, France, was apparently completely destroyed in a fire, another partially. German customers are also affected.
The French cloud service provider OVH is one of the largest providers in Europe and one of the better-known outside the industry giants AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. The company operates 27 data centers in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific region. Now one of the data centers operated by OVH in Strasbourg has apparently fallen victim to a major fire. Another is said to have been at least partially destroyed.
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OVH data centers partially completely destroyed
OVH CEO Octave Klaba stated in a series of messages via Twitterthat the data center SBG2 and part of SBG1 could no longer be saved. The fire brigade was able to prevent the flames from spreading to SBG3. SBG4 is also not affected. People were not harmed. How it came to the fire and which data is specifically affected by which companies or services is not yet known.
In any case, the OVH boss advised customers to activate their “Data Recovery Plan”. According to Klaba, the undamaged data centers are unlikely to resume service, at least on Wednesday, as the company currently has no access to the buildings. But try to at least get to data center departments three and four to check the servers and restart the systems as soon as possible.
Update 7:20 am
Fire is over. Firefighters continue to cool the buildings with the water.
We don’t have the access to the site. That is why SBG1, SBG3, SBG4 won’t be restarted today.– Octave Klaba (@olesovhcom) March 10, 2021
The availability of the relevant OVH services can be found on the relevant Status page comprehend. In the late Wednesday morning, mostly red control lights can still be seen there. It was the last major failure at OVH according to data center knowledge arrived in 2017, also in the data center in Strasbourg – at that time because of a power failure.
