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There aren't enough ports on the 4550 to swap it in we would need two. We are due for a fabric upgrade.
What would be the proposed solution? Replace the failing EX4500 with a 4550? If so, what does one of those run?Ben WiechmanOn Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 7:03 AM, Mike O'Connor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:i think we owe you one, Doug
thanks!
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> On Oct 27, 2016, at 2:07 AM, Doug McIntyre <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 01:35:06AM -0500, Doug McIntyre wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 01:20:45PM -0500, Doug McIntyre wrote:
>>> We're going to upgrade the core MICE 10G switches coming up this week
>>> on Wednesday night/ Thursday morning at 12:30AM-1:00AM CDT on 27 October.
>>
>> The upgrade is NOT going as planned, and we discovered our maintenance
>> support has run out again, and JTAC will not help us (even at a pay
>> per-incidence event). In fact, since the EX4500 has reached EOL, (although
>> not EOM), and we let the contract expire, Juniper says we will be unable to
>> renew maintenance support on the EX4500 at all.
>>
>> I'm looking at ways to bring the VC cluster fully back online now.
>>
>> If it comes down to it, I should have non-production hardware that could
>> temporarily go in.
>
> Okay, I'm going to have to drive in.
>
> Right now, the state of things.
>
> The primary boot partition on the EX4500 took a digger, so we have bad
> hardware. I was able to boot off the backup boot partition on the
> EX4500, but this is still the older software version since I was in
> the middle of the upgrade and the upgrade process didn't get to the
> 2nd partition to upgrade it yet.
>
> The virtual chassis is now split version, which means VC won't work.
>
> Furthmore, networking is not working on either unit, even to the OOB.
>
> I am going to have to drive in to be physically in front of the box.
>
> I have two plans of attack. I will put the install image on a USB
> drive and load it off USB onto the unit. IIRC, having done this
> before long ago, this takes *ages* to do.
>
> If I can get both units happy with the same software versions, VC can
> reestablish, and things can go along.
>
> I also have two EX4550's not-in-production right now, I'll bring them
> along just in case. If things are really to the point of no return on
> the EX4500, I can put in one or two and bring them up, restoring the
> saved configs onto them. Of course, things will have to shuffle a little
> then. This will delay me a bit in unmounting them from where they are,
> but I think it is a safe backup plan.
>
> Another option would be to make the EX4550 standalone, but I have to
> unhook the VC cables before this can happen, and it only helps along
> a portion of the members. I don't think this is worthwhile to pursue.
>
> So, it'll be another hour before I can get downtown to my place, get
> hardware, and get over to 511.
>
> --
> Doug McIntyre <[log in to unmask]>
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> Network Engineer/Provisioning/Jack of all Trades
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