PDS14 setups will take atleast several weeks right now, and the amount of backorders is only estimated to grow over time. Things are still so much work in progress that we cannot setup new machines any faster :( We already maxed out parts of the infrastructure and have to beef it up before new machines can be setup. That is going to happen ... Read More »
Maintenance over.
In the end we reverted back to old config, as iscsitarget was not providing the performance excepted and several authentication issues.
We will be looking at alternative options, but for the time being, storage will remain in configuration freeze, now changes will be made for a while to it.
storage maintenance will start shortly, perhaps in less than an hours.
Everything is prepared so hopefully the downtime is only less than 30mins.
In several hours there will be some storage maintenance on going. We need to reboot all machines. Reason is on the storage side several drives have dropped in speed, which means the whole array is crawling right now. We have no idea why the SATA link is being renegotiated for lower speed, ALL sata cables are high quality and new. Further, Samsung ... Read More »
