So seamless. Well done!

--tomasz


On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Ct Woo <[email protected]> wrote:

> All,
>
> The switchover work is done.
>
> The site was was available to readers throughout the migration work though
> it was in read-only mode for about 32 minutes, when Asher and Mark had to
> migrate the database masters over from Tampa to Ashburn.
>
> We will cancel the reminding maintenance windows.
>
> Thank you all for your patience and understanding.
>
> Regards,
> CT Woo
>
> On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Ct Woo <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  All,
>>
>> We will be proceeding with the datacenter switchover plan this coming
>> Tuesday (Jan 22, 2013), unless we discover some unexpected and
>> insurmountable issues in our tests between now and then.
>>
>> During the 8-hour migration window on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th (from 17:00
>> UTC to 01:00 UTC hours  / 9am to 5pm PST),  there would be times (lasting
>> about 30 minutes) where the site would be set to "read-only" mode, to
>> facilitate master database switchovers from one datacenter to another.
>> While the site should be available to readers, no new contents could be
>> created, edited or uploaded.
>>
>> We are aware of the inconvenience and we have put together plans to
>> minimize such annoyances, e.g., automating much of the procedures,
>> mitigating known risks,  and performing tests to identify issues prior to
>> deployment. Given the scale and complexity of this migration, we do realize
>> not all operational impact is predictable.  Some users could experience
>> intermittent site unavailability and/or performance issues unfortunately.
>>
>> You can follow the migration on chat.freenode.net<http://irc.freenode.net>
>> (and not irc.freenode.org as mentioned in previous email) in the
>> #wikimedia-operations channel.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> CT Woo
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Ct Woo <[email protected]>
>> Date: Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:07 PM
>> Subject: Update on Ashburn data center switchover / migration – target
>> date is week of 1/22/13
>> To: Wikimedia developers <[email protected]>, Development
>> and Operations Engineers <[email protected]>
>>
>>
>> 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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