[db5-users] OUTAGE: RAM Upgrade 20080622

[Lance Albertson]

Lance Albertson wrote:
> Lance Albertson wrote:
>> All-
>>
>> Outage: June 22, 2008 @ 4:00PM PDT (2300 UTC)
>> Reason: RAM Upgrade
>>
>> I need to perform a RAM upgrade to db5.osuosl.org to bring it from 4G 
>> of RAM to 12G. We recently migrated the forums site for Mozillazine 
>> over to it and encountered some performance issues. Please thank Jason 
>> Kersey (kerz) of Mozillazine as he purchased the RAM for this upgrade. 
>> I'm planning on doing the outage on June 22, 2008 at 4:00 PDT (2300 
>> UTC). If I have time, I'll try and setup a failover between another DB 
>> server so that the outage is seamless, but I've ran out of time to get 
>> that completely setup today. This upgrade needs to happen this weekend 
>> otherwise I would wait to get everything properly setup.
>>
>> If I don't have fail-over setup, I expect the outage window to be 
>> around 10-15 minutes. You can find me on IRC as Ramereth in #osuosl if 
>> you would like to be around during the outage. Please email me if you 
>> have any questions.
>>
>> I apologize for the short notice, but this upgrade is very important 
>> to get done ASAP!
> 
> Just a reminder that this will be happening in about 1.5 hours. 
> Unfortunately I didn't get the seamless upgrade path done so the machine 
> will be unavailable during the RAM upgrade. Hopefully the outage will be 
> no longer than 10-15 minutes.

Unfortunately, do to an error on my part for not double checking, the 
upgrade did not go as planned. We have the incorrect number of DIMMs to 
do the upgrade properly. I'll send another email out later once we 
figure out how we're going to move along with this upgrade.

Hopefully I'll have a slave standby going for the new upgrade try so you 
won't see any downtime.

Thanks and sorry for the inconvenience!

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Lance Albertson                                    lance <at> osuosl.org
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