Re: Required host migration (Sourceware)

[Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@sourceware.org>]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2009 at 03:37:14PM -0700, Jonathan Pickard wrote:
>On 10/01/2009 02:10 PM, Matthew Galgoci wrote:
>>> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:20:43 -0400
>>> From: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com>
>>> To: Eric Brown <ebrown@redhat.com>, overseers@sourceware.org,
>>>     Jonathan Pickard <jpickard@redhat.com>,
>>>     Matthew Galgoci <mgalgoci@redhat.com>, ian@airs.com
>>> Subject: Re: Required host migration (Sourceware)
>>>
>>> Hi -
>>>
>>> cgf wrote:
>>>
>>>> mgalgoci wrote:
>>>>> I would rather see us expend our effort on the new setup and suggest we take
>>>>> one of the lighter used servers and migrate it before the other two and setup
>>>>> some preliminary services on it. Make sense?
>>>
>>> Unfortunately sourceware is not set up to be easily segmented into
>>> partial services.  server2 and server3 are too small to even store all
>>> the data.
>> 
>> Be that as it may, we can at least stand up so that folks can test
>> connectivity as mentioned earlier. On that server a "sorry" page could
>> be setup indicating that sourceware is in the process of being moved.
>> 
>
>All,
>
>We have identified the weekend of December 12 as the migration period
>for these servers. Based on the original e-mail and responses, I believe
>the choice is between two options:
>
>1) move to PHX2 (migrate)
>2) order new hardware for PHX2 (phased migration)
>
>For 1) - Red Hat IT will move the machines and bring them back up in
>PHX2, reconfiguring their network details if wanted and providing remote
>access (serial and/or KVM along with remote power management).
>
>For 2) - Red Hat IT will install any new hardware and provide remote
>access (serial and/or KVM along with remote power management) and you
>will migrate your services from PHX to PHX2.
>
>Please advise on how you would like to proceed.

I would very much prefer 2.

cgf