eCENTER: Please cross your fingers for us :-)

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cross fingersMy dear readers, as you were more than 81’000 (unique visitors) last months to access/read my blog, which means, on average about 2’500 visitors per day, I would like to ask you to cross your fingers for us. Just in case ;-)

Our infrastructure (dev, pre-prod, prod) is now 5 years old (!) and we are completely at the limit of its capability… Time to change ;-) And what for a change!!

We are finalizing this week-end the following migration:

  • from HP L2000 (RISC Processor, 32 bits, 440MHz) to HP DL385/DL585 (AMD Opteron processor, 64 bits, 2.6GHz)

  • from HP-UX v11 to SLES 9 (64 bits)

  • from Apache v1 to Apache v2.0.49

  • from Tomcat v3 to Tomcat v5.0.19

  • from JDK v1.4 to JDK v1.5 (64 bits)

  • from Oracle 9i to Oracle 10g (64 bits)

  • from a Frankfurt – Germany location to a Basle – Switzerland one

  • with a two datacenters concept (as Business Recovery Service)

  • and about 650GB to transfer (net)

The “old” infrastructure is now stopped, we are transferring and importing the data on the new Linux infrastructure. On Sunday, System Acceptance Test for all the applications and Go/No go for the launch of the new environment.

So, again, if 2’500 people cross their fingers on Saturday and 2’500 people on Sunday, this should *help*.

Thanks in advance!

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