We did it. Migrated the hosts/data. Production is now running in Kansas, DR in Georgia, and the old datacenters in NY/NJ are one step closer to being shut down. Interesting couple of things I learned today. SRDF/A is a great technology for replicating over long distances while maintaining what they call a “dependent-write-consistent” state. It …
Category: DataCenter Move
Nov 08
Binfile changes
The joys of data migrations. One of the most common problems is the standard practice of most companies to avoid upgrading whenever possible. The “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentality. I could spend days and days on that particular brand of suicide. For now I’ll just replace that addage with a new one. …
Oct 23
The beatings will continue…
…Until morale improves. Trying to run 4, FCIP trunks over a half a DS3 is a lot like raising a teenager. Sometimes it looks like it’s working, but in reality it’s just screwing around playing video games. Actually, my favorite is that “Raising a teenager is like trying to nail JELL-O to a tree” I’m …
Oct 19
Cisco FCIP and SRDF
Been a while since I’ve written anything – I’m not even sure if I still have a readership. I’ve been working an average of 60 hours a week on a single project these days. Doing a datacenter migration and consolidation. Basically moving 4 Symm-5 generation systems into a single DMX-3. The funniest part of this …
Jan 21
The Datacenter move is COMPLETE
Now I just have to go in and pull about a thousand cables out of the old datacenter and tidy up a bit. We were there until about 4am. My goal from 9pm to 3am was to shutdown and move the Clariion to it’s new home in the primary data center. I got it done …
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