Fwd: RE: [zimbra-admins] Zimbra upgrade plans/roadmap
Thoughts? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: [zimbra-admins] Zimbra upgrade plans/roadmap Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 16:48:12 -0500 From: Schmidt, Karl E. <[email protected]> To: Stacey, Craig J. <[email protected]> CC: [email protected] <[email protected]> Our thinking behind that was we didn't want to interfere with any communication you guys needed to have during your outage. -Karl -----Original Message----- From: Craig Stacey [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 4:45 PM To: Schmidt, Karl E. Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [zimbra-admins] Zimbra upgrade plans/roadmap Since we've already got a major outage for Oct 23/24 happening in 240 where people are expecting various things to be down, might that not work better? On 9/30/10 9:58 AM, Schmidt, Karl E. wrote:
Hello Zimbra leaders and stakeholders,
The CIS Zimbra email team has been hard at work with preparing our production Zimbra environment for a major software upgrade.
This upgrade - from Zimbra 5 to Zimbra 6 - has been in planning and testing for several months. The current Zimbra 6 release - 6.0.8 Patch 2 - looks to be a very stable release. We are confident it will work well in our environment based on our internal testing and discussions with Zimbra technical representatives.
Mike Rios is planning an upgrade from Zimbra 5.0.23 to Zimbra 6.0.8 Patch 2
*TENTATIVELY* during the weekend of October 16th.
Roughly one month later, perhaps during the Maintenance Weekend, Mike Rios is planning to "enable" multi-node architecture. This will allow us to grow to multiple Zimbra servers. Multiple servers are required to support our growing Zimbra environment - especially the planned migration of APS to Zimbra.
A high-level roadmap (needs some minor tweaks) can be found here:
https://wiki.inside.anl.gov/inside/Zimbra/CIS_Zimbra_Roadmap
We are asking you, as a key Zimbra stakeholder, for the following:
* Your approval/disapproval of the October 16th outage event
(Estimated time TBD - between 2 - 8 hours at this time)
* Your thoughts on end-user training/education - is the new
Zimbra 6 web interface different enough to justify
some hand-holding? (we don't believe so, but want your thoughts)
* Your approval of the understanding that the Zimbra 6 upgrade
is essentially ONE-WAY: We CANNOT fall back to Zimbra 5
once we determine Zimbra 6 to be working correctly.
Our Zimbra environment has grown to 850 users, with an additional 1000 users expected to migrate over the coming months (CI + APS).
These maintenance activities will ensure we stay current with the Zimbra software roadmap.
Please share your thoughts with this mailing list.
Thanks!
-Karl
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think they should be rolled together. With power out it doesn't matter to us if zimbra is down ort up. - -- max On Oct 1, 2010, at 4:51 PM, Craig Stacey wrote:
Thoughts?
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: RE: [zimbra-admins] Zimbra upgrade plans/roadmap Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 16:48:12 -0500 From: Schmidt, Karl E. <[email protected]> To: Stacey, Craig J. <[email protected]> CC: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Our thinking behind that was we didn't want to interfere with any communication you guys needed to have during your outage. -Karl
-----Original Message----- From: Craig Stacey [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 4:45 PM To: Schmidt, Karl E. Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [zimbra-admins] Zimbra upgrade plans/roadmap
Since we've already got a major outage for Oct 23/24 happening in 240 where people are expecting various things to be down, might that not work better?
On 9/30/10 9:58 AM, Schmidt, Karl E. wrote:
Hello Zimbra leaders and stakeholders,
The CIS Zimbra email team has been hard at work with preparing our production Zimbra environment for a major software upgrade.
This upgrade - from Zimbra 5 to Zimbra 6 - has been in planning and testing for several months. The current Zimbra 6 release - 6.0.8 Patch 2 - looks to be a very stable release. We are confident it will work well in our environment based on our internal testing and discussions with Zimbra technical representatives.
Mike Rios is planning an upgrade from Zimbra 5.0.23 to Zimbra 6.0.8 Patch 2
*TENTATIVELY* during the weekend of October 16th.
Roughly one month later, perhaps during the Maintenance Weekend, Mike Rios is planning to "enable" multi-node architecture. This will allow us to grow to multiple Zimbra servers. Multiple servers are required to support our growing Zimbra environment - especially the planned migration of APS to Zimbra.
A high-level roadmap (needs some minor tweaks) can be found here:
https://wiki.inside.anl.gov/inside/Zimbra/CIS_Zimbra_Roadmap
We are asking you, as a key Zimbra stakeholder, for the following:
* Your approval/disapproval of the October 16th outage event
(Estimated time TBD - between 2 - 8 hours at this time)
* Your thoughts on end-user training/education - is the new
Zimbra 6 web interface different enough to justify
some hand-holding? (we don't believe so, but want your thoughts)
* Your approval of the understanding that the Zimbra 6 upgrade
is essentially ONE-WAY: We CANNOT fall back to Zimbra 5
once we determine Zimbra 6 to be working correctly.
Our Zimbra environment has grown to 850 users, with an additional 1000 users expected to migrate over the coming months (CI + APS).
These maintenance activities will ensure we stay current with the Zimbra software roadmap.
Please share your thoughts with this mailing list.
Thanks!
-Karl
_______________________________________________ zimbra-admins mailing list [email protected] https://lists.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/zimbra-admins
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