[Hosting] Potential planned 8hr network outage 08/13-08/14

[Lance Albertson]

I just got done having the call with LinkOregon and here are the updates I
know so far:

   1. They will be doing an on-site meeting on Wednesday with OSU
   electricians to see if they can find some power to keep LinkOregon switches
   online during the outage. If they're able to do that, we should be okay and
   have no outage.
   2. LinkOregon will not be able to provide a solution to the secondary
   POP for the OSL due to the complexity of how our physical networks are
   connected and the short amount of time we have to make that work. Longer
   term, it seems to be possible, but will require some planning and
   reconfiguration on both ends.
   3. I will have another meeting Thursday morning with LinkOregon to see
   where we stand

TL;DR: If LinkOregon can find power for their switches, we won't have an
outage. If they can't, we will have an eight (8) hour outage next Tuesday
evening PDT.

Apologies for not being able to send this out sooner. I brought up the fact
that we were not notified until last week even though this apparently had
been planned for months.

Thanks again for your support and patience!

On Fri, Aug 2, 2024 at 2:10 PM Lance Albertson <lance at osuosl.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> We got the following email from LinkOregon that I wanted to pass on to you
> which impacts our connectivity to the Internet:
>
> On August 13, 2024 (08/13), Oregon State University (OSU) will be cutting
>> both primary and backup power to its data center in the Kerr Administration
>> building, to install new power distribution and backup equipment. This will
>> take two of Link Oregon’s points of presence offline, resulting in a loss
>> of all provisioned network services provided by Link Oregon at those POPs,
>> over a period of approximately eight (8) hours (08/13-20:00 to 08/14-04:00).
>
>
> To be clear, this *does not* affect the datacenter where we host all of
> our servers so power will *remain online*. HOWEVER, this datacenter does
> house our uplink to LinkOregon (our ISP) and their equipment will be
> offline during the window above. That means our network connectivity will
> be offline during the outage.
>
> I am meeting with LinkOregon and OSU next Monday to see if we can at least
> get a temporary connection to the secondary POP so that our outage is
> minimal. I am doing my best to minimize this outage, however I wanted to
> pass this information along so that you could make any adjustments you can
> ahead of time.
>
> If you have any other questions or concerns, please contact me directly.
>


-- 
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab
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