Following from the upgrades in London and Manchester the final upgrade will be to our Huntingdon Data Centre. We have a number of planned changes over the coming week.
1) Individual Rack Upgrades
A number of our hosting racks have older cisco switches in them – we are planning on upgrading them over this weekend / early over the coming week. We expect this will cause a number of short breaks to service to individual servers. We will have the new rack in place in each rack before and then simply move the patch cable for each server to the new rack. Once all servers are moved to the new switch – the old switch will be removed.
2) Power upgrades
In preparation for the new core switch units we will be adding additional power to our core racks. This should not cause any issues – However our specialist engineers will be working near the main power distribution board as such this should be considered at risk. All work will be carried out outside normal working hours
3) Core Router and Switch replacement
Once the prep work has been completed we will be replacing the core routers and switches with much faster and newer models. During the replacement process this will mean there are short periods of downtime as services and moved to the new switches and routers. We will create a separate ticket for this work as soon as we have a definate date – however we wanted to provide some notice – we anticipate this being later in the week or over the weekend – it will be outside standard working hours.
We will update this ticket as these progress