S8700 Hot Move

[Rannelator]

Has anyone done this?

We are moving an S8700 for a customer from one room to another.

Cabling is all in place (SM fiber, Ethernet, CAT5, etc...)
We are moving just the S8700 from a server room to the phone switch room
where all the cabinets & EPNs are located.
Is it possible to move the servers one-at-a-time and keep the
phone system up?

I figure we can shutdown the standby server, power it off,
move it, power it up, make it active and then do the same
for the other server.

On paper it should work, but I can't find anybody inside
or outside Avaya who has done it or has heard of it being
done.

Thanks for any input.

 

[mrjedi]

i beleive there will be some downtime. Under normal circumstances, if you power down one server, because it is connected via fibre, the system stays up. However, once you take the server away, there will be a re-boot but I am not 100% on this. Just thinking logically

 

[Rannelator]

How does the active server know if the standby is there if it shutdown and powered off (power cord unplugged)?

 

[nohuhu]

Rannelator,

how can it know? no way to detect it. anyway, i think you can move your servers without any fuss. i tried a situation almost like this in my demo, turning one of the servers off in 'accident' conditions, i.e. plugging out the power cord. it was an active server, and when i did it the standby one got control immediately without any loss of active calls. so i think if you'll do it accurately and without stress -- shut down a standby server, move it, connect the cables and power it up it should boot up and connect to the active without any problem. then you can manually interchange servers so the one in a new location become active and repeat the procedure. i'm strongly doubt there would be any problems. after all, the duplicated servers are here exactly for this reason: to allow one of them to be removed from the service without any loss.

 

[Rannelator]

Cool.

I finally got in touch with a local Avaya Field Engineer and he said the same thing.

We are scheduled for tonight...

I'll update when we're done.

 

[Rannelator]

Success!!!

We took our time, documented and made the move.

The switch did not go down and we had no problems.

Thanks for your input!

 

[nohuhu]

Rannelator,

congrats. avaya rocks!