Tuesday, March 17, 2020

What kind of High Availability/Failover/General testing would you do during your business closure that you normally wouldn't?

I work at a casino so I have NEVER had the luxury of a true maintenance window, let alone a 2 week+ maintenance window. This casino has not closed one day in something like 17 years. This is golden egg type territory here to actually be able to re-arrange network racks, change scary configs, test out redundancy etc etc without the fear of a network outage on the floor.

So the question is: What kind of maintenance and testing would you do for your network given the opportunity to break it at will?

We run a pretty simple network here. Nexus 7010 core/Catalyst 6500 distributions/Catalyst 3650 Access Switches. Cisco UCS with VMware on top for the compute side of things, and cisco MDS with Hitachi storage for the SAN part.



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