Tonight I'll be replacing one of the 8-port fibre-switches with a 16-port switch I've got parked on my desk right now. Because the server-to-SAN connections are NOT redundant, this means that I get to take down half the cluster to do this swap. Fortunately, the one service that can only reside on one node is not included in this one, so all cluster services SHOULD remain up.
In theory. We'll see. Anyway, it'll be happening during our normal Tuesday night (Wednesday morning) maintenance window, so no one should complain.
This positions us well for next week. Next week the admin who has been on vacation all July comes back and we have a week before the other admin goes off to camp in eastern WA. We hope to get the Exchange migration booted along, now that the blades are in. At this rate I'm going to be bored come October.
In theory. We'll see. Anyway, it'll be happening during our normal Tuesday night (Wednesday morning) maintenance window, so no one should complain.
This positions us well for next week. Next week the admin who has been on vacation all July comes back and we have a week before the other admin goes off to camp in eastern WA. We hope to get the Exchange migration booted along, now that the blades are in. At this rate I'm going to be bored come October.