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SDSC PM Notification: 5/1/12, 5pm – 9pm, Red Hat Linux Xen VM

Tuesday, May 1st at 5pm, IT Services will be patching all production Red Hat Linux Xen guests and Xen servers for regular maintenance. Please save any work before the 5pm maintenance period. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. The follow systems will be patched and rebooted: artemis bss-prod bss-staging bss-test …

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RESOLVED: Emergency Maintenance, 2/29/12, 11:00pm, Commvault: SAMQFS

  Services have been restored. Thank you. We experienced unexpected downtime of the SAMQFS tape archive starting at 10:06pm which has caused the Commvault jobs to pause. Technicians are actively working to resolve the outage and we will post notification once Commvault is back online.    

SDSC PM Notification: 2/21/2012, 5:00pm-8:00pm, VM Guest Windows

>Tuesday, February 21st at 5PM, SDSC IT Systems will be patching the base >operating systems of VM guests to protect against recently released >vulnerabilities. Services may be intermittently unavailable as the VM >guests are rebooted between 5PM and 8PM.

SDSC PM Notification: 5:00pm – 9:00pm 2/7/2012 – Solaris patching

>On Tuesday, 7 February 2012 between 5:00 PM and 9:00 PM, the following >Solaris systems will be patched and rebooted twice (patch, reboot, >patch, reboot): > > ace1 kdc1 kdc2 lager ns1 pastor ps-c01-1 > ps-c03-1 ps-c03-2 romaine wmd yuban > >Each reboot is expected to take 5-10 minutes, and the services >provided by each …

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SDSC PM Notification, 2/7/12, 5:00-9:00pm – SDSC Web Services

>On Tuesday, February 7th 2012, from 5pm to 9pm, IT will be patching and >rebooting the Red Hat Linux reference systems that host many of our web >applications. During the reboot, web services on these hosts will be >unavailable. The total downtime is expected to be 5-10 minutes for each >host, but unexpected complications could …

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SDSC PM Notification: 5:00pm – 9:00pm 2/21/2012 – Solaris patching

>On Tuesday, 21 February 2012 between 5:00 PM and 9:00 PM, preventive >maintenance will be done on the following Solaris systems: > > billthecat blc carlsbad clark dmv franklin hydra > kimball luray morton multivac pauline ps-c01-2 > ps-c02-1 ps-c02-2 russell statham sybil was-srb > >Each system will be patched and rebooted twice (patch, reboot, …

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NFS outage to be complete at 8 AM

6:44 AM US/Pacific The migration of files from UFS to ZFS file systems is complete, and most services are expected to be restored by about 8 AM.

SDSC PM Notification: 12/20/2011, 5:00pm-7:00pm, VM guest disk

December 20th at 5PM, IT Systems will be migrating the VM disk for the SDSC samba services, the FlexLM license server and the general linux login machine to the new NFS file system. During this time all access to the samba drives both internal and external will be unavailable. Please make sure that any connections …

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SDSC PM Notification: 5:00pm – 9:00pm 12/20/2011 – Solaris

On Tuesday, 20 December 2011 between 5:00 PM and 9:00 PM, thefollowing Solaris systems will be patched and rebooted twice (patch,reboot, patch, reboot): eiger glomar matterhorn montblanc niagara niagara-alef niagara-betniagara-dalet niagara-gimel pechanga ps-test-1 shanti silicositu spare5 spare8 spare9 srb-mcat-01 viren vitro vivo Each reboot is expected to take about 5 minutes, and the servicesprovided by …

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SDSC PM Notification, 9:00pm 12/27/11 – 9:00am 12/28/11, SDSC NFS

Dear colleagues, On Tuesday, 12/27/2011, starting at 9:00 PM, SDSC will begin a filesystem migration to ZFS on the core NFS server. During this migration and final rsync all NFS services will need to be stopped. The process is expected to be completed by 9:00am on Wednesday, 12/28/2011. Event status will be provided on http://status.sdsc.edu and …

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