[Info-vax] Eisner offline for a few days

[Simon Clubley]

On 2020-08-30, Hunter Goatley <goathunter at goatley.com> wrote:
> On 8/27/2020 7:05 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> Eisner is on the move again.
>> 
>> VSI are moving most of their systems to a co-location facility and
>> Eisner will not be available for the next few days after it is shutdown
>> some time on Thursday.
>> 
>
> EISNER is back online! The IP address has changed, but the change to 
> eisner.decus.org seems to have propagated now, so you shouldn't have any 
> trouble logging in.
>
> All seems to be OK, but let me know if you see anything unusual.
>
> Thanks to Rob for getting EISNER relocated and back up!
>

Confirmed that I can connect and do various things just fine so far.

It would be interesting to know why VSI relocated most of their
systems to a co-location facility. I wonder how that affects OS level
development and doing, for example, cluster testing and development
with various cluster interconnects (unless those systems are still local
to VSI).

OTOH, having nodes in a co-location facility gives VSI more options for
forming clusters with nodes both at remote locations and local to VSI.

Just curious why they moved the systems.

Simon.

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