Load Balancing testing was successfully completed, including resilience testing
The migration to the new Application Servers is scheduled to be completed w/c 11th March and in preparation
Implementation plan has been prepared and signed-off by the project team
Service alert has been prepared and published
Request to Change Control Board
Deployment checklist has been commenced
The build of the live Application Webservers have been completed
Commenced review of load balancer configuration on the live servers
Database Servers
The build of the database servers has continued, but there is still the requirement to create users before handing over to KSL
Issues
During the testing via the load balancers, it has been discovered that some of the windows services cannot be run on simultaneously on both Application Webservers, such as BedBooker and Call Logging. Investigations are on-going to determine if these services can be run within a cluster on the Database server. If this proves not to be possible, there may the requirement to accept that such services will require only to be run on a single site
It has also become apparent that it is not possible to test all aspects of the live system on Test. This relates to BedBooker and Call Logger
the proposed Live changes regarding student contracts have been delayed and this could impact on the UAT of the new database servers
Next steps
Application Webservers
Deploy to live via the Load Balancers
Database Servers
Complete build of new test Database servers
Complete User Acceptance Testing
Windows services
Requireemnt to review remaining windows services
Technical Documentation
Update Technical Architecture Document
Live Deployments
Determine requirements regarding live operational changes that require to be implemented and ensure any such changes does not impact on the on-going Test environment