Half hour downtime

[Mike McGrath]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Mike McGrath <mmcgrath at redhat.com> wrote:
> > I'd like to schedule a half hour of downtime for our netapp in PHX.  This
> > should only impact some nfs related stuff (primary mirror and things like
> > images on the wiki).
> >
> > I'd like to do this before the final freeze, RH's storage team will
> > actually be performing the work, I just want to find a time that will work
> > for everyone.  Does sometime next week work?
> >
>
> Are there any more RC's etc coming out? I would expect that 1 week
> would allow for high seeding of mirrors so it should impact too much.
>

I'm hoping Jesse can comment on this one, AFAIK it wouldn't fall in our
normal freeze window though which will end tomorrow and start again on May
12th.

> Is the half-hour max or estimated down time?
>

15 minutes was the estimate from the storage team.  My understanding is
this is a firmware upgrade so our new storage trays will work.  The trays
themselves can be installed live.

> What kind of Netapp do they use these days? (European or African)?
>

I can never remember :-/  I'll ask.

	-Mike