I have an interesting problem - we are going to test our UPS backup system by pulling the plug in our server room for a short time.
Ideally the UPS will kick in and nothing interesting will happen, but there is of course a slight chance that the UPS will malfunction and our servers will drop dead from the power loss.
My question is - how can I minimize the effects of such a scenario? The machine is a Windows Server 2008R2 with some MS SQL instances - I figured I will put the databases offline and stop the SQL service, but there is still a chance that Windows will decide to mess with system files during the test and then it won't be able to boot properly again.
How can I make sure that Windows Server boots gracefully after a power loss? Thanks for all the ideas!
