Schedule Outage

[terryrayc]

Just FYI, I received the extra 8GB of ram for the VMware server today(well it's on my desk at work, I'll pick it up tomorrow)

I'm going to take the server down tomorrow to put the memory in, as well as add a second tape drive. I'm also going to test out a custom driver I injected into the oem.tgz file. For those of you know don't know, vmware doesn't support everything, and it turns off that from version 4.0 to 4.1 they dropped support for the scsi card I was using(Yes it's an older card but it still works) so I grabbed the old driver and loaded it on the new server...while it worked fine when I added it while the system was running, what I need to test is if the driver will extract and load after a reboot (VMWare rebuilds most of itself during the reboot so a lot of changes can be lost unless done just right.....it's a pain sometimes.

Anyway I'm sure that's more info them most of you wanted to know but anyway I plan to take the server down around 5pm tomorrow 10-24-2012 (EST)

[terryrayc]

reminder

[JRSitter]

Hey Terry,
Do you have an idea for the down time?

Thanks Again for the upgrades the servers are already running like champs. :D

[terryrayc]

if all goes well 5 minutes.

[terryrayc]

looks like my driver updates worked fine, also the extra 8gb was good as well, so we have 24gb of ram which now gives us room to add 3 or 4 new servers...if we ever need to.

[JRSitter]

Thanks Terry