OVHcloud Network Status

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fra-1|5-n7/a9
Scheduled Maintenance Report for Network & Infrastructure
Completed
Frankfurt is the biggest OVH POP in term of traffic exchanged and this year was particularly intense for our 4 old friends fra-1/5-n7/a9.
Indeed, with the new datacenters of Limburg and Ozarow, the traffic flowing through Frankfurt doubled in only 1 year !

In order to continue our expansion in Germany and in East Europe, we decided to replace the current architecture by a new design more scalable and more distributed.
This new infrastructure will be able to route 28,8Tb/s per POP and will allow us to be present on more peering POP.
Also the plan is to open a new POP in Frankfurt to connect our critical peers and carriers in both location.

This new architecture is segmented in order to address 2 level of capacity planning (DC <> DC & DC <> PEERS). Indeed, we see more and more traffic between our datacenters and we need to handle this in a scalable way.

In order to migrate to this new design several steps are needed to move every part with a rollback procedure and a backup solution in case of outage.

The first step is to add in parallel the new architecture and move every long haul links to it. The peering will remain on the current devices and will be migrated later.

We have decided to split this intervention in 3 maintenances :
- NETCHANGE-116 : 18/06/2019 10:00PM (UTC)-> 19/06/2019 3:00AM (UTC)
- NETCHANGE-117 : 19/06/2019 10:00PM (UTC)-> 20/06/2019 3:00AM (UTC)
- NETCHANGE-118 : 25/06/2019 10:00PM (UTC)-> 26/06/2019 3:00AM (UTC)

During these maintenances, the latency of the traffic flowing in this POP will variate during few minutes for each direction we will move.


Update(s):

Date: 2019-06-26 02:14:08 UTC
The maintenance is over. SMAUG is ready in Franckfurt ! We are monitoring the infrastructure.

Date: 2019-06-26 01:52:57 UTC
We are going to resume the maintenance by patching with the latest security update the last device in franckfurt

Date: 2019-06-26 00:23:58 UTC
We have moved all the links from fra-1-a9 to fra-fr5-sbb1-nc5. We are going to clean the configuration

Date: 2019-06-25 22:30:57 UTC
We are moving the fibers from fra-1-a9 to fra-fr5-sbb1-nc5

Date: 2019-06-25 21:08:18 UTC
We are going to resume the maintenance by patching with the latest security update the devices on franckfurt

Date: 2019-06-20 00:26:35 UTC
All the links have been moved from fra-5-a9 to fra-fr5-sbb2-nc5. We have finished the maintenance for today. Next step next week.

Date: 2019-06-19 22:55:24 UTC
GRA <> FRA has been moved on the NCS. We are going to move LIM <> FRA

Date: 2019-06-19 21:47:50 UTC
SBG <> FRA is currently moved from A9 to NCS

Date: 2019-06-19 21:28:13 UTC
The first commands have been applied, we will soon move the fibers from fra-5-a9 to fra-fr5-sbb2-nc5

Date: 2019-06-19 20:55:53 UTC
We will soon resume the maintenance.

Date: 2019-06-18 23:31:36 UTC
The maintenance for tonight is over. No impact noticed. We will continue tomorrow.

Date: 2019-06-18 23:15:19 UTC
A part of the traffic is going through the new routers.

Date: 2019-06-18 22:33:07 UTC
The first BGP sessions are up

Date: 2019-06-18 22:11:00 UTC
The first IGP sessions are now up

Date: 2019-06-18 21:29:41 UTC
The second linecard has been inserted in fra-5-n7

Date: 2019-06-18 21:22:58 UTC
The first linecard has been inserted in fra-1-n7

Date: 2019-06-18 21:01:24 UTC
We are going to start the maintenance soon.
Posted Jun 17, 2019 - 09:08 UTC