I have some great news! LinkOregon and OSU have figured some secondary power to keep our connection to LinkOregon online during the outage. They will be connecting some temporary rack-based UPSs that are connected to the "house power" (i.e. not generator backed). Now, if for some reason there is a power outage from the "house power", the temporary UPS systems will only last for 10-20 minutes.
*But again, as of right now, we should stay online during the planned outage.* I sent our thanks to their team working out this solution so that we can remain online. Thanks again! On Mon, Aug 5, 2024 at 10:33 AM Lance Albertson <la...@osuosl.org> wrote: > 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 <la...@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 > -- Lance Albertson Director Oregon State University | Open Source Lab
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