I think the general consensus during the last discussion was "as long as we know ahead of time". Doug's notification certainly meets that criteria for me, and the MOP sounds solid. (Although I will still probably shut down my sessions the night before). ~Matthew On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 12:12 PM, Justin Krejci <JKrejci@usinternet.com> wrote:

Speaking for myself, any time is just fine as long as it is only one server at a time, as you indicated.

________________________________________ From: MICE Discuss [MICE-DISCUSS@LISTS.IPHOUSE.NET] on behalf of Doug McIntyre [merlyn@IPHOUSE.NET] Sent: Tuesday, March 31, 2015 11:50 AM To: MICE-DISCUSS@LISTS.IPHOUSE.NET Subject: [MICE-DISCUSS] Route Reflectors swap out.

I should schedule up a time when I swap out the RR's with the new hardware. I have them ready, just need to get them there at online.

Of course I'd do one at a time, probably take down #2 first, and then once that is up, and give it 15 mins to settle, go and down #1.

Would the afternoon of Friday, 4/3/2015 work for people? Should be a 30-45 minute procedure, it should be straight forward.

-- Doug McIntyre <merlyn@iphouse.net> ~.~ ipHouse ~.~ Network Engineer/Provisioning/Jack of all Trades

Doug, Sounds great, thanks for the work on this! -Nevin On Friday, April 3, 2015 5:53pm, "Doug McIntyre" <merlyn@IPHOUSE.NET> said:

On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:50:19AM -0500, Doug McIntyre wrote:

...

I should schedule up a time when I swap out the RR's with the new hardware. I have them ready, just need to get them there at online.

And this process is done.

I have both new sets of hardware installed and happy. I have roughly the same # of routes coming into each being distributed out. The routing looks good from the RR's as well as my site (ipHouse).

I also left my last build of a route reflector hardware (the one with the SAS6/i controller, so no battery, no battery deep cycle testing) as a cold spare here. Jeff has offered up another R320 when they are done as another cold spare I believe, so we'll have two loaded up cold spares ready to go. If I bring in some duplex power cables, I could make them warm spares, ready to kick over with DRAC when needed, I have some in my pile, since I don't use them. (obviously they'd still be A + B power, not single powered).

Should be all good. Speak up if not. -- Doug McIntyre <merlyn@iphouse.net> ~.~ ipHouse ~.~ Network Engineer/Provisioning/Jack of all Trades

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