[Update – 21:58] Reboots of Web and Database nodes, physical systems, desktop and most VM are complete. There are five VM which are still patching and pending reboots. [Update – 17:20] Patching and reboots have started. We will update with additional status when the maintenance is complete. — On Tuesday, 21 June 2016 between 5:00 …
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General announcements
SDSC Emergency Maintenance – CDS2 UPS (West Colo UPS) – 13 Jun 2016, 06:00-22:00
[Update 14:34, 13 Jun 2016] – The UPS placed back in production. All work on the room cooling was completed and tested. Systems are functioning normally. [Update 09:40, 13 Jun 2016] – SDSC engineering staff indicates that work is progressing faster than expected and a significantly earlier return to service may occur. UCSD Facilities Management …
SDSC Outage Notification – Core Networking – 16 May 2016, 23:30 – 17 May 2016, 23:30
(23:30) The remaining switch chassis was brought online. One 1GbE port was deactivated pending discussion with the customer. Please contact SDSC operations if you feel there are remaining network connectivity issues. (22:51) The majority of switchgroup N77 is online — web/db and ITSS service has been restored. One chassis still remains offline serving one project. …
SDSC PM Notification – Linux Patch/Reboot – 19 Apr 2016, 1700-2200
On Tuesday, 19 April 2016 between 5:00 PM and 10:00 PM, all SDSC IT Linux reference systems will be patched and rebooted once, with each reboot expected to take 5-10 minutes. The services provided by each host will be unavailable while it is rebooting. To protect your data, please log off and/or stop any sensitive …
SDSC Facilities Outage Notification – East Building Elevator – 25 March 2016
[25 Mar 2016, 20:38] The East-wing building elevator is out of service per campus facilities management.
SDSC Emergency Maintenance – Cloud SSLv2/SSLv3 disable – 11:00, 1 Mar 2016
Due to the DROWN SSL exploit that was published today, SDSC has disabled SSLv2 and SSLv3 on the cloud.sdsc.edu website because it puts all users’ encrypted authentication and data at risk of being compromised by 3rd parties. This change will not affect most clients. Updating your client software should resolve any connection issues since both …
SDSC Outage Notification – Commvault – 21:00, 29 Feb 2016
[Update: 23:06, 29 Feb 2016] Deduplication stores have been sealed and systems requiring the deduplication are running backups. At approximately 21:00 on 29 Feb 2016 the Commvault media agent named ‘cvma3’ hung and was power cycled. This caused jobs which were running to pause. There were some jobs which required manual restarts. Some jobs utilizing …
SDSC Emergency Maintenance – Project Storage – 18 Feb 2016, 1800
SDSC will be applying critical patches to the Linux Project Storage systems tonight, 18 February, 2016 starting at 6pm. This maintenance will require a reboot of all systems listed below and is expected to take no more than 60 minutes. This is in response to a new critical vulnerability announced Tuesday, CVE-2015-7547. HOTEL: ps-006:/ps-data/cmmap ps-009:/ps-data/ngbt …
SDSC Emergency Maintenance – Linux patch/reboot – 17 Feb 2016, 1900-2300
[Update: 18 Feb 2016, 00:29] All systems are online. Please contact SDSC Support with questions or concerns. [Update: 17 Feb 2016, 23:14] Most systems are back online. Some of the systems are still in the process of rebooting, but should be completed shortly. Once complete a final update will be posted. Colleagues: SDSC will be …
SDSC power issues
As of 1230 all issues have been resolved and all systems are operating as expected. Jeff Filliez SDSC Data Center Manager