[FQuest Notice] Switchgear replacement

[Terra]

What: Network instability
When: 5/18/2016
Window: 12am to 6am

We are replacing the old Foundry switch that has been causing STP (Spanning Tree Protocol) instability problems within out network, and also relocating another switch from the spine down to a leaf switch and adding a new higher capacity spine switch...

We will make all efforts to minimize the impact as we move the port connections from one switch to another...

[Terra]

We are beginning our Phase II work tonight, and is mostly focused on getting the faulty switch off our network...

[Terra]

The faulty switch has been replaced and overall, there was very minimal network disruption... Actually, so much less than we had originally thought that certainly all of the stars and planets were perfectly lined up...

As an aside, a huge amount of kudos to Kevin for making this crazy hard task go as smooth as possible due to the sheer amount of cabling he had to work with... Well done!

This concludes Phase 2 of the network upgrades and maintenance, and we'll be scheduling Phase 3 within the next two weeks...