117174-consolidating-server-rack-space

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			So I just read that there will be a 12hr real life maintenance issue going on and all servers will be down starting at 3am tonight. It doesn't really affect me because I will be in bed sleeping, wake up, go to work, come back and Nexus will be up and running again! But What I would like to know is, what is this actually mean for Wildstar in terms of consolidating your rack space?	
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Olivar explains things here that may give some insight. It just means we take up less physical room with newer technology. Nothing earth shattering. 
 
- Team WildStar 	
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			suuuure....	
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			Noob question here, but does WS have its own data centers staffed by CS employees? Why weren't servers consolidated as part of the mega server update. Why would it take 13 hours to unplug and remove servers that aren't active, and slap the active servers into a consolidated rack? Are we getting game time? Or boomboxes (ugh)?	
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Noob question here, but does WS have its own data centers staffed by CS employees? Why weren't servers consolidated as part of the mega server update. Why would it take 13 hours to unplug and remove servers that aren't aren't active, and slap the active servers into a consolidated rack? Are we getting game time? Or boomboxes (ugh)?
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			It means they're reducing costs..just like dumping staff.	
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Noob question here, but does WS have its own data centers staffed by CS employees? Why weren't servers consolidated as part of the mega server update. Why would it take 13 hours to unplug and remove servers that aren't aren't active, and slap the active servers into a consolidated rack? Are we getting game time? Or boomboxes (ugh)?
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Speaking out of personal experience, consolidating server racks is a tedious process simply from how these servers are wired up.
The biggest time constrain usually goes to cabling.
These cables are long.....and usually cover places that are extremely hard to reach.
The image below depicts how cabling often goes in datacenters:
 
good cabling:
 
bad cabling:
 
So you spend a lot of time just figuring out what is connected to what.
After removing servers from the rack, you often have to redo a lot of cabling or you may end up with back network segments.
Also even if you completely redo the cabling and hardware movement, your routers and servers need a bit of time to rebuild the entire Network map to get traffic flowing again.
Firewall entries have to be cleaned and stuff has to be cleaned.
 
As for people at the Datacenter, this depends on the contract they have.
It can be a service contract where the people working at the datacenter do all the work, or they have actuall access to the boxes and Carbine does the work themselves.
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Speaking out of personal experience, consolidating server racks is a tedious process simply from how these servers are wired up.
The biggest time constrain usually goes to cabling.
These cables are long.....and usually cover places that are extremely hard to reach.
The image below depicts how cabling often goes in datacenters:
 
good cabling:
 
bad cabling:
 
So you spend a lot of time just figuring out what is connected to what.
After removing servers from the rack, you often have to redo a lot of cabling or you may end up with back network segments.
Also even if you completely redo the cabling and hardware movement, your routers and servers need a bit of time to rebuild the entire Network map to get traffic flowing again.
Firewall entries have to be cleaned and stuff has to be cleaned.
 
As for people at the Datacenter, this depends on the contract they have.
It can be a service contract where the people working at the datacenter do all the work, or they have actuall access to the boxes and Carbine does the work themselves.
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still...13hours....just think of all the remodeling i could be doing in housing!!!
 
and I just got my first voucher set of expanded architect schematics!!!!
 
.......*Kicks jabbit*
 
guess I'll spend the time watching u-tube walkthroughs on crimelords of whitevale....	
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still...13hours....just think of all the remodeling i could be doing in housing!!!
 
and I just got my first voucher set of expanded architect schematics!!!!
 
.......*Kicks jabbit*
 
guess I'll spend the time watching u-tube walkthroughs on crimelords of whitevale....
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Why weren't servers consolidated as part of the mega server update.
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That right there is the question of the day.
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Not speaking for the company here, but from personal experience it's much better to deal with one large project at a time instead of attempting two large projects at the same time. Once the first major project is completed and it all checks out, then you can move on to the next one without having to worry that you will some how affect / impact / break the previous project. 
 
Just my two cents. 	
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Now that the megaservers are up, and there's more space in the server room, they can finally install that basketball hoop!
 
I used to work in.a server room, but with disaster recovery back up, not with the servers themselves.	
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Why weren't servers consolidated as part of the mega server update.
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Speaking out of personal experience, consolidating server racks is a tedious process simply from how these servers are wired up.
The biggest time constrain usually goes to cabling.
These cables are long.....and usually cover places that are extremely hard to reach.
The image below depicts how cabling often goes in datacenters:
 
good cabling:
 
bad cabling:
 
So you spend a lot of time just figuring out what is connected to what.
After removing servers from the rack, you often have to redo a lot of cabling or you may end up with back network segments.
Also even if you completely redo the cabling and hardware movement, your routers and servers need a bit of time to rebuild the entire Network map to get traffic flowing again.
Firewall entries have to be cleaned and stuff has to be cleaned.
 
As for people at the Datacenter, this depends on the contract they have.
It can be a service contract where the people working at the datacenter do all the work, or they have actuall access to the boxes and Carbine does the work themselves.
 
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Not speaking for the company here, but from personal experience it's much better to deal with one large project at a time instead of attempting two large projects at the same time. Once the first major project is completed and it all checks out, then you can move on to the next one without having to worry that you will some how affect / impact / break the previous project. 
 
Just my two cents. 
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They attempting 3-4 content patch's consolidated together + insanely huge bug fix patch's all at once. That it's easier to do multi-large projects at the same time.
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It means they're reducing costs..just like dumping staff.
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Or are they setting up bee hives?
 
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oh man that looks like SO MUCH FUN to play in! *squees*
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Well, from what they have said about drop patch's. They attempting 3-4 content patch's consolidated together + insanely huge bug fix patch's all at once. That it's easier to do multi-large projects at the same time. (Why they also say they working on Drop 4, as 3 code has been solidified and put on PTS, and that's why they can't even give us the non-content bug patchs more often than 3-4 months now...)
 
Oh dear, it's gone from 'more staff than building the game' when megaserver was done, now it's 'limited staff' in recent cut backs... 
 
Ok, so it's likely it's a NCSoft consolidation not purely WS, tho GW2 not going offline...
 
What you say, makes clear sense. It's what the dev's have said of late that doesn't add up. *Crys into his cupcake* WoW's currently adding servers to Australia and there lag's already half of WS. Oh god, I log on each day to check for wonderful news, and even my loved medic hasn't had a word from the dev's since the 'August' drop 3 patch info, and talking about Smart Heals for Drop4. but but but... 
 
I've been deluded, hoping that somehow it'll all just be sorted & best game ever. (As it had the potential there)
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oh man that looks like SO MUCH FUN to play in! *squees* 
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			I'm no tech and don't even understand coding and such, but I often pondered that all this tech and codes and everything seemed to have started right after the Roswell crash.	
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Speaking out of personal experience, consolidating server racks is a tedious process simply from how these servers are wired up.
The biggest time constrain usually goes to cabling.
These cables are long.....and usually cover places that are extremely hard to reach.
The image below depicts how cabling often goes in datacenters:
 
good cabling:
 
bad cabling:
 
So you spend a lot of time just figuring out what is connected to what.
After removing servers from the rack, you often have to redo a lot of cabling or you may end up with back network segments.
Also even if you completely redo the cabling and hardware movement, your routers and servers need a bit of time to rebuild the entire Network map to get traffic flowing again.
Firewall entries have to be cleaned and stuff has to be cleaned.
 
As for people at the Datacenter, this depends on the contract they have.
It can be a service contract where the people working at the datacenter do all the work, or they have actuall access to the boxes and Carbine does the work themselves.
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			Give me some crackers, a sprite, and some Gorillaz, Marvin Gaye, and Phantasy Star music on repeat, and I'd tackle that in two days by myself.  With nap breaks of course.  And I'd need fingernail polish, a sharpie, and multi coloured duct tape.	
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Well, from what they have said about drop patch's. They attempting 3-4 content patch's consolidated together + insanely huge bug fix patch's all at once. That it's easier to do multi-large projects at the same time. (Why they also say they working on Drop 4, as 3 code has been solidified and put on PTS, and that's why they can't even give us the non-content bug patchs more often than 3-4 months now...)
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