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<div id="magicdomid354" class="ace-line"><span class="">All,</span></div>
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<div id="magicdomid484" class="ace-line"><span class="">We will be
upgrading one of our MySQL clusters (mysql1-vip (mysql1/mysql2))
next Wednesday, April 20th, 2022 between 17:00-20:00 UTC
(10am-1pm PDT).</span></div>
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<div id="magicdomid899" class="ace-line"><span class="">We are
upgrading MySQL (Percona) from 5.5 to 5.6. This is the first
step towards managing the cluster under Chef and </span><span
class="author-a-0z83zz82zz70zqz65zz70zz86zz79zcz66zuz122zz82ze0">upgrading
to MySQL</span><span
class="author-a-z86zcea72fvz81zz66zrjdbz87zz65z"> (Percona)</span><span
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5.7 at a future date</span><span class="">. Expect more
maintenance on this cluster in the near future.</span></div>
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<div id="magicdomid578" class="ace-line"><span class="">This will
result in up to 20 minutes of downtime in the middle of the
window as we fail-over the cluster. We estimate that the actual
downtime will be far less than that bound.</span></div>
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<div id="magicdomid371" class="ace-line"><span class="">We have
tested this upgrade in a separate environment and believe that
it will have minimal impact to projects on the cluster. We will
make a full backup of the cluster before the upgrade work
begins.</span></div>
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<div id="magicdomid895" class="ace-line"><span
class="author-a-0z83zz82zz70zqz65zz70zz86zz79zcz66zuz122zz82ze0
b"><b>If you are using the vip1 cluster, please make sure you
are using the mysql1-vip.osuosl.org address instead of
mysql1/2.osuosl.org directly or additional outages will occur.</b></span></div>
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<div id="magicdomid372" class="ace-line"><span class="">If you have
any questions or concerns, please let us know. We'll be in
#osuosl on Libera Chat in case any one needs to contact us
directly.</span></div>
<p>Thanks!<br>
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--<br>
Ethan Hampton<br>
Student Systems Engineer<br>
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab<br>
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