Oh, I hate upgrades...Pt 2
Well no upgrades happening this weekend due to compatibilty issues and trying to schedule down time for servers. Due to a lack of foresight by the powers that be, we do not have a scheduled period where we can take servers down for maintenance, to my mind this needs to be set in stone in the following way "between x time and y time on this day you need to expect your server to be restarted", this gives us a windows when we don't need to worry about whether data is be imported or worked on and there is no other real activity of note being carried out. Just because it is there doesn't mean we will use it, but it is nice to have the opportunity without jumping through hoops trying to get permission from a bunch of system owners to update drivers and reboot a server. This time it was both VMware and EqualLogics updates that needed to reboot servers. Some of our servers have direct attached iSCSI drives on the EqualLogic, these run the HIT kit and since version 5.0.2