Tony Posted February 26, 2012 Report Share Posted February 26, 2012 Starting on Tuesday February 28th we will be migrating the Hurricane server to new higher end hardware as well as better system configuration. We feel this will benefit all users on the Hurricane server. We estimate this will be completed no later than Thursday March 1st. We expect no more than 5 minutes of downtime per account as we will be moving accounts to the new server then re-routing the IP address to the new hardware. This means there will be no changes to DNS and as a result no dns progation issues. In our experience our migration method means the large majority of users will not even realize that they've switched servers. If you do however run into any issues do not hesitant to contact us as our system administrators are prepared to resolve any issues experienced. The new Hurricane server will be similar to that of our recent deployment of servers: Old Hurricane: Dual Xeon E5520 24GB RAM 4x300GB Raid-10 New Hurricane: Dual Xeon X5675 24GB RAM 4x600GB Raid-10 So this is a pretty big upgrade as it will have four additional CPU cores with 8 to the operating system counting hyper threading. It will also be using 600GB disks over 300GB disks of the old system. Once the migration starts as accounts transfer over they will go onto the newhurricane hostname until the entire migration is complete when the new hardware will become hurricane and the old server oldhurricane. If you have any questions regarding the maintenance do not hesitate to contact us. Our system administration department is available to answer any questions regarding this. Start Date: 02/28/2012 End Date: 03/01/2012 Estimated Down Time: less than 5 minutes Duration: 3 days Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Posted February 28, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2012 This is underway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted March 1, 2012 Report Share Posted March 1, 2012 This migration has been completed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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