Tony Posted October 25, 2009 Report Posted October 25, 2009 We will be migrating the accounts on the Mercury server starting on Friday October 30th and this will last until Tuesday November 3rd. The reason for this upgrade is our continued commitment to having exceptional quality of service. The Mercury server is showing it's age in specification so we feel everyone would benefit from a much needed upgrade. For the migration process we will be moving accounts in sections based on IP address. We anticipate no more than 5 minutes of down time per account in order to make the switch. We migrate the account data then re-route the IP address to the new server. Thus there is no down time associated with the upgrade. The time frame given we estimate will not be nearly this long. In the past we have migrated to other hardware without any down time in less than three days. So our 4 days just gives us plenty of time to do it right and make sure there is no interruption in service. The specifications of the server will be similar to that of the Skyline & Skyline servers that received their upgrades recently. Old Mercury: Xeon 5430 4GB RAM 4x250GB SATA II Raid-10 New Mercury: Dual Xeon 54xx 12GB RAM 4x300GB SAS Raid-10 You'll notice three times as much memory and SAS drives which are significantly faster than the SATA counterparts. The CPU's is still something that is up in the air at this point. It's subject to availability but it'll be at least Dual 5430 so the new machine will have twice as many CPU cores. If you have any concerns about this migration please do not hesitate to contact us. Start Date: 10/30/2009 End Date: 11/03/2009 Estimated Down Time: less than 5 minutes Duration: 4 days
Tony Posted October 29, 2009 Author Report Posted October 29, 2009 Well looks like this machine is a 55xx series system as well due to availability issues with 54xx series. So the final specifications are as follows: Dual Xeon 5520 12GB RAM 4x300GB SAS 15K RPM Raid-10 We'll be starting the migration tomorrow :-)
Tony Posted October 31, 2009 Author Report Posted October 31, 2009 50% completed thus far probably be finished Sunday at some point.
Tony Posted November 1, 2009 Author Report Posted November 1, 2009 83% complete should be finished Sunday at some point
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