On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:54 PM, Marko Obrovac mobrovac@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hello,
The WMF’s technology department has for this quarter the goal of testing and temporarily switching the main operational data centre from Eqiad (located in Chicago) to Codfw (located in Dallas)~[1,2]. This includes both back-end-processing as well as serving live traffic from it.
As a part of this effort, we are scheduling a switch-over for RESTBase and its back-end services, including: Parsoid, the Mobile Content Service, CXServer, Mathoid, Citoid, Apertium and Zotero~[3]. Technically, it will not be a real switch-over per se, because we will keep all of those services active in both DCs. However, external traffic will be directed to the Dallas DC only.
Hi all, just a quick heads-up:
given the small issues we experienced last time, which we've found to be unrelated to the switch itself, we scheduled a new switch-over test lasting 24 hours, which is scheduled to start tomorrow (April 5th) at 14:00 UTC. We don't expect any significant user impact.
Anyways, should you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to contact us here or on IRC (#wikimedia-services / #wikimedia-operations @ freenode).
Cheers,
Giuseppe