woensdag 28 januari 2015


Update 2015-01-26

by allenkerenskyosg
DRIVE RECOVERY STATUS
The recovered disk has been examined and looks in generally positive shape to attempt a full asset recovery.
Melanie from AVN has worked heavily with the recovered asset drive on a process to bring the recovered assets back online.
ASSET SERVER STATUS
In the last OpenSim developers meeting, Melanie from AVN offered to contribute her FSasset service to OpenSimulator for use by OSgrid.
This FSasset service provides similar asset service as the SRAS2 service previously used on OSgrid, as well as additional “large scale grid” features.
She has also provided OSG a new asset server and database design to make the best use of it.
As a result, both of the asset servers were taken down to firmware and rebuilt from scratch.
Both asset servers are back in service and Melanie and OSG are hammering away on them building out the new asset services.
OSGRID RESTART
OSgrid restart is getting closer but there is still no specific date or ETA as we test this entirely “new new” asset service design and associated asset recovery.
OSGRID RESTRUCTURING
Discussions held around consolidating infrequently used plazas on a simulator that can load from a selection of oar files as needed, such as for specific events.
Some experiments on OAR loading, merging, and moving for this capability were successful.
More news once additional planning and testing has been done and final decisions can be made.
SPECIAL THANKS
OSgrid would like to offer thanks to everyone such as Melanie, Justin, Diva, our supporters, and everyone who has gotten behind OSgrid during this catastrophe.
The assistance, the patience, and the good wishes are all very much the rays of light we need to keep pushing forward in an otherwise very awful time.
Thank you all!
Next Update 2015-02-01 or 2015-02-02

donderdag 22 januari 2015


Update 2015-01-19

by allenkerenskyosg
DRIVE RECOVERY STATUS
The recovered drive has been received by the datacenter.
ASSET SERVER STATUS
With the databases up and replicating on private interfaces, firewall configurations were enabled.
Failover, Failback, Backup, and Restore procedures drafted and in testing.
Additional regions were brought up on the new asset servers for testing.
OSGRID RESTART
OSgrid restart is getting closer but there is still no specific date or ETA as we test this entirely new asset service.
OSGRID RESTRUCTURING
Discussions held around consolidating infrequently used plazas on a simulator that can load from a selection of oar files as needed, such as for specific events.
allenkerenskyosg | 2015-01-19 at 2:13 pm | Categories: Disruptions & Downtime | URL: http://wp.me/pSI0n-9t

maandag 12 januari 2015


Update 2015-01-12

by allenkerenskyosg
DRIVE RECOVERY STATUS
The recovered drive has been shipped from the recovery service to the data center.
No ETA yet on when the data center will receive the recovered drive or have it online for us.
ASSET SERVER STATUS
Both new asset servers have successfully passed the first tests hosting OSgrid regions.
Lbsa Plaza and Sandbox Plaza 2 successfully connected to the new asset servers.
OARs were loaded successfully, and assets replicated to both asset servers as expected.
Dan Banner and I were both able to login to the regions, configure our basic avatars, then hypergrid out to other servers successfully and hypergrid from other servers into the new OSG regions successfully.
OSGRID RESTART
OSgrid restart is getting closer but there is still no specific date or ETA as we test this entirely new asset service.
Once the current testing rounds of failover, failback, and backup/restore are complete to all admins' satisfaction including finalized checklists and documentation, we may be able to offer a tenative ETA for restoring service.
OSGRID RESTRUCTURING
No discussions held this week while restoring test regions and validating basic grid functions took priority.
allenkerenskyosg | 2015-01-12 at 3:38 pm | Categories

woensdag 7 januari 2015


Update 2015-01-05

by allenkerenskyosg
DRIVE RECOVERY STATUS
With the holiday breaks behind us, we expect the data center to receive the recovered drive from the recovery service soon, but do not have an ETA yet. We hope to have an ETA or the drive itself before the next update.
ASSET SERVER STATUS
Both new asset servers were fully configured and brought online temporarily working as a master-master replication pair.
This was the first full-scale test of the new database replication, robust xassetservice/hgassetservicece and nginx all together, and it was more successful than we'd hoped.
The database, asset server, and nginx all started together without error, and successfully replicated assets from master to slave in both directions.
This means that asset transactions will be replicated in real-time to the standby asset server, regardless of which server we're using to serve assets.
The next tests involve loading a test copy of Wright Plaza, testing from master to replica and back to master in both directions, checking all OSgrid operators are happy with failover, failback, and that everyone is satisfied the new asset server design will be able to handle the flood once the gates are opened.
Some technical hurdles remain to be worked out and we're consulting with core OpenSim developers as needed to remove these as OSgrid comes online using an entire new asset service.
OSGRID RESTART
OSgrid restart is getting closer but there is still no specific date or ETA as we carefully test this entirely new asset service.
OSGRID RESTRUCTURING
Restructuring discussions have begun with an eye to rebalancing the plaza loadout, backups, and the various OSgrid services. At this stage its more inventorying the existing resources and services, and scoping out what to leave along and what should change for 2015 and beyond.
Next Update by 2015-01-11 or 2015-01-12.
allenkerenskyosg | 2015-01-06 at 5:08 am | Categories: Disruptions & Downtime | URL: http://wp.me/pSI0n-9o

vrijdag 2 januari 2015

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Happy New Year:: Best wishes  from  Jorink Devin