@Jhancock.wm & @Papaul - can you see if we have any spare 10g NICs from decommissioned servers for this?

Thanks,
Willy

We do have a spare but are using it in a test server. Should be free next week for use.

Thank you @Jhancock.wm that's great! Please LMK a day and time of next week that would work for you

Got the card back @fgiunchedi. I'm free to swap it anytime on Tuesday or Thursday between 8am and 4pm CDT

In T369826#9982167, @Jhancock.wm wrote:

Got the card back @fgiunchedi. I'm free to swap it anytime on Tuesday or Thursday between 8am and 4pm CDT

Thank you ! I'm good with Tues, though I'd like to confirm first (maybe @Papaul) that swapping the card doesn't require a physical move of the server which in turn might mean a change of IP address. As we discovered with @VRiley-WMF in T369825 and on IRC.

thank you !

We won't need to move racks. But because of the way the switches are, we can't reuse the same port on the switch. we'll be moving to a different set of 4. Are you going to reimage the server?

In T369826#9982422, @Jhancock.wm wrote:

We won't need to move racks. But because of the way the switches are, we can't reuse the same port on the switch. we'll be moving to a different set of 4. Are you going to reimage the server?

No the server will stay as-is, provided we can indeed keep the same IP, and it seems to be the case! I was hoping to be able to swap in a 10g card only (modulo all adjustments like port switches on netbox for example)

@fgiunchedi yes the server will keep the same IP since we will just relocate it within the same rack. please see step below

• power of the server
• plug the 10G card
• move the server to the new location plug the using the 1G
• power back the server
• once the server is up run "ip link" to see what is the name of the first 10G port(1)
• rename the interface to use the new name (/etc/network/interface)

-reboot the server up reboot the network services
Netbox setups

• create that interface in netbox
• setup the the switch port
• move the ip address from the 1G nic to the 10G nic
• run homer
• ping to test the sever is up

let me know if you need any help with all those steps. I am doing the same thing for dpproxy200[5-8] T362824

Thank you @Papaul that is quite helpful!

The steps make sense to me, I'm happy to take care of the server configuration (adjusting configuration). I'd even simplify those as such to touch the server only once:

• power off host
• relocate to new position
• plug in 10G card and cable
• power on host
• access via mgmt to adjust network configuration with new NIC
• reboot via mgmt

Then the netbox steps, what do you think ? Either way I'm not attached to the exact procedure, whichever works best for you

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