On Wednesday, 15 August 2018, at approximately 1pm, the primary VMware cluster at SDSC experienced a complete outage. During the outage all VM guests were unable to access disk resources, and eventually needed to be powered off to allow cluster recovery. At 10pm the cluster was stable, at which point all VM guests were placed …
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SDSC Outage Notification – multiple networks in building/datacenter – 15 Aug 2018, 13:15
[Update – 22:59] All guests are online and appear to be acting normally. Please contact support with any questions or concerns. [Update – 22:00] Engineers are slowly booting guests and monitoring stability of the VMware cluster. Additional updates will be posted once all guests are on and the environment is operating normally. [Update – 18:42] …
SDSC Planned Maintenance – Linux Patch/Reboot – 21 Aug 2018, 17:00-21:00
On Tuesday, 21 August 2018 between 17:00 and 23:00, general system maintenance, including patching and reboots, will occur for the following systems. Systems will be unavailable during reboots. Please save all work prior to the 17:00 maintenance period. Updates will be posted on the SDSC status page at http://status.sdsc.edu. anchor athena awesomelabs bastiat beeker bolero …
SDSC Outage Notification – Project Storage Hotel Node – 2 Aug 2018, 15:00
At approximately 15:00 on 2 August 2018 a single project storage hotel node froze and required a hard reboot. Following the reboots, some NFS clients may experience stale NFS file handles which a remount should correct. The services appear up and functioning. Admins of systems may need to be contacted to perform remounts. Please contact …
SDSC Planned Maintenance – Linux Patch/Reboot – 17 July 2018 – 17:00-23:00
On Tuesday, 17 July 2018 between 17:00 and 23:00, general system maintenance, including patching and reboots, will occur for the following systems. In addition to operating system maintenance, SDSC will be disabling hyperthreading on all processors to address recent security concerns. As this requires BIOS configuration changes, outage times for physical systems may be longer …
SDSC PM Notification – Linux patch / reboot – 19 June 2018, 17:00-23:00
On Tuesday, 19 June 2018 between 17:00 and 23:00, general system maintenance, including patching and reboots, will occur for the following systems. Updates will be posted on the SDSC status page at http://status.sdsc.edu. Systems will be unavailable during reboots. Please save all work prior to the 17:00 maintenance period. Thank you. anchor athena awesomelabs bastiat …
SDSC Outage Notification – Project Storage Hotel Node – 6 June 2018, 04:00-07:00
At approximately 04:00 on 6 June 2018 a single project storage hotel node lost connectivity with the attached disk. At approximately 07:00 a storage engineer reattached the disk pool and repaired the disk export. The services appear up and functioning. Please contact support if problems continue. The affected exports are listed below. ps-004:/ps-data/roylab ps-013:/ps-data/dsc ps-015:/ps-data/ucm_engineering …
SDSC Outage Notification – Citrix remote desktop – 12 Apr 2018, 18:30
The Citrix remote desktop and application service is currently not working. Engineers are investigating and this post will be updated as more information is gathered.
SDSC Planned Maintenance – Linux Patch/Reboot, Firewall Modifications – 17 Apr 2018, 17:00-23:00
On Tuesday, 17 April 2018 between 17:00 and 23:00, general system maintenance, including patching and reboots, will occur for the following systems. In addition, SDSC will be implementing network-based firewall rules to block unintended incoming connections. The initial rule set will be populated based on observed traffic and existing open networking ports. For future firewall …
SDSC Planned Maintenance – Linux virtual system migration – 20 March 2018 – 17:00-23:00
[Update: 21 March 2018, 00:11] All systems are up and operating. Please contact support with any questions or concerns. On Tuesday, 20 March 2018 between 17:00 and 23:00 the following virtual machine systems will be powered off and migrated to different hardware. As the systems are migrated, SDSC will perform routine patching. We anticipate that …