I will be here to physically remove the servers from the cabinets, and watch them blanket and load them into the bins (only have 6 total servers)
Jean-Paul Natola Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 14:01:18 -0400 Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown. From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Trusting the movers? On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 1:53 PM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: Team? Boy I wish I even had a helpdesk person - My plan is as follows; after backup A) Update MX B) Disconnect 1DC , and Exchange C) Hail a taxi D) Get to new office, turn on DC, then turn on exchange E) wait for the movers to bring the remaining servers and Cabinet the following morning Anything I missed here? Jean-Paul Natola Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 12:53:15 -0400 Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown. From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Make sure your backups are recent, up to date and current. :) Know your shutdown and restart plans/procedures and go over them with your team. I went through this exercise a few months ago (with help and input from the good folks here) and it was luckily a non-event. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 12:30 PM, J- P <[email protected]> wrote: That is scary, we are moving to our new office tonight/tomorrow and although its only 1 mile away - now I'm getting nervous... :( Jean-Paul Natola From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 11:16:28 -0500 Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown. When we moved into our new data center in 2010 we had several drives in a few older servers and an older SAN that did not spin back up after being shut down to be moved. The equipment was only down for a couple of hours while it was moved between buildings. Those drives had been spinning continuously for several years before the move. Luckily the failed drives were in separate RAID arrays so we didn’t lose any data. Dave From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maglinger, Paul Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 11:03 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] RE: Week long shutdown. The first concern that comes to mind doesn’t involve AD, but rather that sometimes hard drives that have been spinning continuously don’t want to spin back up after they’ve cooled down. -Paul From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kennedy, Jim Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2013 10:37 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NTSysADM] Week long shutdown. We are shutting our data center down for 7 days to repair the HAVAC/Electrical systems. Long story but it needs to be done this way. Since we are a school district and it is summer we are just going to pull the plug on the network and let that summer staff fend for themselves. I have a secondary MX up with a hold and forward. There are 4 offsite DC’s that could be left running, but they will not be able to talk to each other, their connectivity is via the data center. I am thinking shut them down too. Any issues or concerns that come to mind for a week long downtime for AD?
