Scheduled Network Maintenance: Core Router Replacement

Tuesday, August 24, 2010


In order to keep up with the growing needs and provide greater expansion, the data center will be replacing the current core routers with Brocade MLXe series routers.   Date: Sunday, September 12, 2010 Start Time: 12:01 AM CDT (GMT-5) End Time: 6:00 AM CDT (GMT-5) Maintenance Scope: Replace core routers. Customer Impact: Major - Minimal customer...

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Emergency Power Systems Maintenance

Friday, August 13, 2010


This notice has the potential to affect all customers due to its scope.  Please be advised that we do not expect a service interruption, but we are prepared for the case that one may occur. If possible, we would encourage you to temporarily transfer any critical workload to another site, if available, to reduce the chance it will be interrupted.  If it is feasible to...

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Scheduled Cabinets Maintenance

Saturday, March 20, 2010


We scheduled a maintenance on some cabinets in both data center in Chicago. Some servers that have no rails will be shutdown for about 10-15 minutes to install rails for them. We will be performing this on Sunday, Mar 21 (around 2:00AM - 5:00AM PST). This maintenance will make your servers more secure and in good position, etc. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Should...

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Scheduled Network Maintenance - Sunday, January 17th at 2AM CST

Friday, January 8, 2010


The data center has scheduled a network maintenance on Sunday, January 17th at 2 AM Central Standard Time. The purpose of this maintenance is to replace the recent problems of gigabit switches in chi01 facility to Cisco 3560E switches. This maintenance will involve a simple cut-over from the existing switches directly to the new ones, which are already in place and operational. It will only...

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Core Network Maintenance - Sun, Dec 20, 09

Friday, December 18, 2009


The data center is scheduling a network maintenance on their core networking gear across all locations from 1AM - 4AM Central on Sun, Dec 20, 09. This maintenance should not involve any downtime, but it will likely result in various route adjustments, BGP flaps, some packet loss, and moments of increased latency. The purpose of the maintenance is to simply the configurations and to make...

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Outage Report - Dec 07, 09

Monday, December 7, 2009


Today at 5:08:48AM (Pacific Time), the network in chi01 is becoming unreliable. The outage was spanning from 2 to 20 minutes. At 8:15:48AM, it's down completely. This outage is purely caused by a failed distribution switch in chi01. After replaced and configured a new Cisco switch, the network is backed up at 11:05:48AM. This outage affected customers that have servers located in chi01...

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VINAX is using Twitter

Wednesday, October 21, 2009


VINAX is now using Twitter for quick updates and giving special offers. Here is our Twitter URL: http://twitter.com/vinaxnet Make sure to following us on Twitter to see our quick updates and special offers. Hope to see you there!

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Scheduled Network Maintenace - July 13

Friday, July 3, 2009


Our data center will be putting in place a new edge router to facilitate higher throughput for peering relationships through Equinix Chicago, to reduce load on existing core networking equipment, and to increase overall network redundancy. This maintenance will begin at 12AM and run through 4AM on the morning of July 13th. During this maintenance period there should be no customer affecting...

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