[Info-vax] Eisner offline for a few days

[Tym Stegner]

I meant: one of the reasons.

due to the current medical situation, VSI is all working from home anyway, so few interconnect issues have surfaced.   most clustering is down within a rack, with exceptions for clustering systems across adjacent racks.    distributed clustering has been available since the introduction of Cluster-over-IP, in 8.3, I think.

-tj

On Monday, August 31, 2020 at 11:44:04 AM UTC-4, Tym  wrote:
> one reason; two words:  regulated power.      The Bolton office is a 25+ year-old building.
> 
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> On Sunday, August 30, 2020 at 8:23:11 PM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote:
> > On 2020-08-30, Hunter Goatley  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.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Simon Clubley,
> > Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.