[c-nsp] Data Center switch replacement
Randy McAnally
rsm at fast-serv.com
Thu Dec 17 21:42:34 EST 2009
> How about you individually move each connection over to the secondary
> switch one at a time. This should only be a 30 second downtime
> window per port, I'd think? Once you've migrated everybody off of
> the primary switch, pull it, upgrade it and then move everybody back
> one-by-one? This would minimize everybody's downtime and I think
> would go over better with your clients. Plus, you can drag out the
> upgrade over time rather than an "all or none" scenario.
Agreed. What if something goes wrong or takes longer than expected --
wouldn't you like to know by the time you've moved the first cable and not
after the original switch is completely offline and de-racked?
More information about the cisco-nsp
mailing list