Problem Found, Emergency Averted!

Last week I was flying my Cessna from Texas to Delaware and ran into a problem after takeoff from our midpoint stop in Tennessee. After climbing  to 4000 feet, my oil temperature suddenly shot up and oil streaked up the windshield. As a pilot I was trained to quickly look at my instruments, determine what was going on and take corrective action. I leveled off to bring my oil temperature down, ensured the plane was flying safely, checked for nearby places to land if needed, and then contacted Memphis Center with a request to return to the airport we’d just left—it was only about 10-15 minutes away. As we turned around and headed back, the oil temperature dropped into normal range, the cylinders reported normal, and the Memphis Center folks were helpfully calling out alternate airports if I needed one. There was no weather and the plane was flying fine, so we entered the traffic pattern at the airport we’d left, dropped the landing gear, touched down and taxied to the ramp. We were on the ground safely and now it was time to figure out what had gone wrong. There was a small audience gathered. Apparently, the oil had caused quite a trail of smoke as we came in.

There was oil around the propeller, spinner and down the side of the airplane, in addition to the smears on the windshield and cowl. A crowd of people gathered around while I removed my upper cowl. It quickly became obvious that the seal on the propeller governor had failed, allowing oil to escape. The Aircraft and Powerplant Mechanic at the field took off the Propeller Governor to get it rebuilt and we found a rental car and drove the remaining distance to our Delaware office. It was a long day (and night!), and the experience confirmed a lot of what I learned in Pilot training. Flying is still better than driving.

Oh wait. While true, what I meant to say is that expert maintenance and timely upgrades are what keep planes flying! And sometimes, though the Cessna is not yet ready to retire, new equipment can be custom-tailored to your mission.

ONE — Expert maintenance and support can avert a potential disaster! When it comes to critical systems you rely on experts in the field. Zerowait’s service and support for your NetApp storage is the best in the business.

• ZPA Special: Start any new support contract for a NetApp FAS system and get 15% off annual pricing. Applies to old and new customers. New system contracts only.

TWO – When you need to upgrade a system, get a solution that meets all your requirements as closely as possible. Zerowait SimplStor can be custom tailored to your storage needs today and can help you grow tomorrow.

• Includes 2 Intel Quad Core Processors and 32GB or more RAM
• Includes dual 10GbE ports, with slots for more
• 6TB, 8TB, 10TB, 12TB, 14TB, 16TB SATA/SAS drives available.
• RHEL available at an additional charge
• Includes First Year SimplSupport – monitoring, 24/7 access to engineering, and NBD (Next Business Day) parts replacement
• Click here to tell us more about your application, and we’ll get back to you with a quote.

THREE – Have a Backup Plan! vStor25T 25TB DPX backup appliance — $35,500

Be prepared, if you need to return to your last stop, make sure you have all the data you started with. SimplStor powered by Catalogic can get you back safely! SimplStor vStor backup appliances are low-cost, high performance devices that can replace your current backup for less than the cost
of maintenance.These tightly integrated SimplStor/DPX software solutions enable you to quickly deploy a new DPX infrastructure or add secondary storage to your existing DPX enterprise.

vStor offers platform-native snapshots that are integrated with DPX block-level backups for instant data and system recovery, and include data reduction via both data deduplication and compression. Replication is included.

• Based on 12 bay/2U chassis
• Controller includes 2 intel Quad Core processors and 64GB RAM
• Includes DPX software with ZFS operating
  system
• Includes Intel P4800X 375GB for metadata
• Includes dual 10GbE ports.
• Includes First Year SimplSupport – Monitoring, 24/7 access to engineering, and NBD (Next Business Day) parts replacement.

Click here to learn more about our appliances and to request a custom build (36- and 60-bay chassis are available for larger configurations.

Over the last twenty years technology has changed, and many storage and networking market leaders have come and gone, but Zerowait continues to grow because we put our customers’ requirements first every day.

To set up a conference call to discuss your storage and support needs, please click on this link to contact us with a time/date, or simply give us a call at 888.811.0808.