Hi.
There's an entry in Wikimedia's engineering goals page[1] that reads "Full
production switch-over of EQIAD as primary DC, Tampa as secondary; test
failover capabilities." It's targeted for October to December 2012. I'm
wondering what the status of that switchover is.
I looked at the relevant Wikitech wiki page.[2] I didn't gain much insight.
I also looked at
mediawiki.org, but was only able to find an outdated
page.[3]
With some poking, I found another page on the Wikitech wiki about a planned
migration. It reads "Identify and plan around the deployment/migration date
- tentatively Oct 15, 2012. Need to communicate date."[4]
I searched the Wikimedia blog for "eqiad"[5] and there are a few mentions of
the new data center being used for particular tasks in the monthly
engineering reports, but I'm not sure if it was ever switched to be the
primary data center. Was it? If not, has that switchover been rescheduled?
MZMcBride
[1]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Engineering/2012-13_Goals
[2]
http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Ashburn_cluster
[3]
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/WMF_Projects/Data_Center_Virginia
[4]
http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Eqiad_Migration_Planning
[5]
https://blog.wikimedia.org/?s=eqiad