[outages] PLANNED OUTAGE: Wikipedia.org

[Jay Ashworth]

Wikipedia is moving their Ashburn VA datacenter, 17-01UTC three days in
a row, 22/3/4 January.

Print this out and hang it on the wall you keep such things on, so everyone
will know.

Apologies for the crappy line wrap; I've had 36 RFC-compliance bugs open
on Zimbra for about 4 years now.

Cheers,
-- jra

----- Forwarded Message -----
> From: "Ct Woo" <ctwoo at wikimedia.org>
> To: "Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>, "Development and Operations Engineers"
> <engineering at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 3:07:15 PM
> Subject: [Wikitech-l] Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target date is week of 1/22/13
> All,
> 
> The Migration team is in the last lap on completing the remaining
> tasks to
> ready our software stack and Ashburn infrastructure for the big
> switchover
> day.
> 
> Per my last
> update,<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-October/063668.html>
> with the Fundraising activity behind us now, the team has scheduled
> the *week
> of 22nd January*, 2013 to perform the switchover. We are going to
> block a
> 8-hour migration window on the *22nd, 23rd and 24**th*. During those
> periods, *17:00 UTC to 01:00 UTC hours (9am to 5pm PST*), there will
> be
> intermittent blackouts and they will be treated as 'planned' outages.
> You
> can follow the migration on irc.freenode.org in the
> #wikimedia-operations
> channel.
> 
> The team is putting the finishing touches to the last few tasks and we
> will
> make the final Go/No decision on 18th Jan, 2013. An update will send
> out
> then. For those interested in tracking the progress, the meeting notes
> are
> captured on this wikitech
> page<http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Eqiad_Migration_Planning#Improving_Switchover>
> .
> 
> *Please note that we will be restricting code deployment during that
> week,
> allowing only emergency and critical ones only.*
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> CT Woo
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