On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 4:41 PM, Michael Scherer <msche...@redhat.com>
wrote:

> Le mercredi 17 août 2016 à 18:46 +0200, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> > Le lundi 08 août 2016 à 15:11 +0200, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> > > Le mercredi 03 août 2016 à 14:43 +0200, Michael Scherer a écrit :
> > > > Le jeudi 28 juillet 2016 à 10:21 -0700, Amye Scavarda a écrit :
> > > > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 4:05 AM, Niels de Vos <nde...@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 06:21:33AM -0400, Kaleb KEITHLEY wrote:
> > > > > > > On 07/27/2016 05:18 PM, Amye Scavarda wrote:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > From the latest updates on the cage list, it looks like
> we're tracking
> > > > > > > > for these moves/downtime for August 8-9? That'll be
> Monday-Tuesday.
> > > > > > > > Any complaints about that schedule?
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 3.8.x releases are scheduled for the 10th of each month. In
> yesterday's
> > > > > > > Community meeting Niels said that 3.8.2 is planned to be
> released on
> > > > > > > schedule.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > If this goes as planned then it shouldn't be a problem, right?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > We just need to make sure that all patches for 3.8.2 have been
> tested in
> > > > > > the CI before the move. It shortens the development cycle a few
> days,
> > > > > > and it would have been nice to know a little more in advance and
> > > > > > mentioned in the community meeting.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I do not think there are any critical patches for the release,
> so I do
> > > > > > not expect any problems with the outage either. (Although it
> really
> > > > > > isn't nice to treat 3.8 releases as guinea pig for infrastructure
> > > > > > changes.)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Niels
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I brought this up to the community cage group this morning, and
> we'll look
> > > > > to move the VMs after the 3.8.2 release.
> > > > > I'll let Michael put in more details around exact timing.
> > > >
> > > > So we still do not have the exact timing, that's waiting on IT to
> > > > configure the network port (and then I have to copy data, and
> configure
> > > > the server for new network, and admin cards, and various stuff).
> > >
> > > So After coming back from weekend, and dealing with my backlog of mail
> > > and expenses, I just received a notification that IT did moved the
> > > server (on friday evening) and it does even answer to ping on the admin
> > > interface. So I will configure it for internet access later today or
> > > tomorow (depending on my capacity to read all mails and doing
> meetings),
> > > and will then plan to the test move once I am confident the server is
> > > ok.
> > >
> >
> > So, news about the server.
> >
> > I did see there was some weird lvm corruption (that I didn't
> > investigate), but couldn't find the exact fix. Turn out that this was
> > just removing extranous PV from the VG and that's it. However, since we
> > are speaking of moving production workload on it, I will need to
> > reformat it to use hardware raid, and so doing that tonight.
>
> Ok so I did reformat and rename the server (with some pain, since the
> idrac interface is a bit annoying, and I did hit a few roadblock with
> java on linux, with Centos iso, with anaconda partitioning choices) Now,
> that's 4 disk in hardware raid 5, and the name is
> myrmicinae.rht.gluster.org (a type of ants).
>
> I will finish the ansiblization later.
>
> > Then i will start to test the copy of VM once that part is done.
>
> On that front, seems doing any kind of disk snapshot requires some
> downtime, because RHEL do remov^W differenciate features between qemu
> for RHEL and qemu for RHEV, so Centos inherit the limitation.
>
> So I guess we might need a few reboot, which will also permit to get
> kernel upgrade, etc. I have no idea of the needed downtime, but since
> that's just a reboot, I hope I can do that outside offices hours.
>
>
> --
> Michael Scherer
> Sysadmin, Community Infrastructure and Platform, OSAS
>
>
Great!
Thanks for the update here.
At this point in time, do we have a good timeline for when the reboot can
happen?
In short, is there a light at the end of the tunnel?
- amye

-- 
Amye Scavarda | a...@redhat.com | Gluster Community Lead
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