Today we had a big server move. Our work area is being renovated, so we had to move the servers to another room like five hundred feet down the hall. Something on the order of seven or eight hours later were were done, after unwiring, moving, rewiring, and powering all the servers. And let's not forget the many banks of UPS batteries (at 65 pounds per battery). We were all proud of ourselves until we turned everything on and learned that the network lines we were promised were active turned out to be, in fact, rather non-active. Ugh. So we had to call an emergency line to have some on-call comm guys activate the lines. Even that was a trial and error process getting all the lines active. But finally we were good to go. Except that I stayed a little later and ended up having a power supply blow on a box unexpectedly. Bleh.
Even though all the servers are up now, there is still MUCH to do for the entire move to be complete. And on Monday, they're supposed to finish up our new desks so that on Tuesday we get to move to our new desks. It will be my first move in years, but for the eighth time in the nine years I've been here. Unfortunately it is not my final move. I have one more move in three months. Hopefully THAT will be the last one.
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