[Labs-l] Tool Labs migration instructions

[Marc A. Pelletier]

On 03/04/2014 04:47 PM, Magnus Manske wrote:
> Some things seem faster, e.g. file system.

In practice, most things should end up with pretty much the same
performance as in pmtpa except for databases which should be noticably
faster (tools-db because it now lives on physical hardware, and the
replicas because they are now a few meters away instead of .026
light-seconds away).

What the move will give us, OTOH, is increased reliability (especially
the web services), and more capacity (as some of the hardware from tampa
is going to be moved to and added to the eqiad infrastructure).

The new tools infrastructure also has been configured with a number of
"lessons learned" from tampa; and some things were done a better way
behind the scenes.  This will make it possible to expand with new
features that would have been nearly impossible previously (more news to
come on that front later).

-- Marc