Complete - Scheduled outage - QRIScloud outage on March 17th / 18th affecting NeCTAR instances
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by Stephen Crawley
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Stephen CrawleyAdmin
QRIScloud NeCTAR users are advised that on March 17th and 18th there will be
a series of rolling outages affecting a large number of QRIScloud
NeCTAR instances. These outages will allow us to make important hardware
upgrades as part of QCIF's regular program of QRIScloud / NeCTAR service
improvement. Specifically, 23 out of 54 of QRIScloud's general compute
nodes are going to be fitted with new Solid State Drives (SSDs) purchased by NeCTAR. This
will allow more instances to be run on these nodes, increasing the
overall capacity of QRIScloud.
The upgrade work will be performed progressively, with 1 or 2 compute
nodes out of service at any one time. The planned procedure for each
compute node is as follows:
All RUNNING NeCTAR instances on the compute node will be shut down.
The compute node will be shut down and powered off.
The new SSD will be fitted and tested.
The compute node will be restarted.
Each instance that was shut down in step 1. will be restarted.
3 weeks ago, we sent emails to the Tenant Managers and Tenant
Members for all instances that will be affected by the outages. Reminders are being sent today, and we plan to send a one-day warning on Wednesday 16th. These
emails include some advice on precautions that users should take to
prior to the outage.
We cannot give a precise schedule for the outages, but we will use
the @QRIScloud twitter feed to post updates as the upgrade progress.
If you have concerns about the impact of these outages, please contact QRIScloud support; <support@qriscloud.org.au>
QRIScloud NeCTAR users are advised that on March 17th and 18th there will be a series of rolling outages affecting a large number of QRIScloud NeCTAR instances. These outages will allow us to make important hardware upgrades as part of QCIF's regular program of QRIScloud / NeCTAR service improvement. Specifically, 23 out of 54 of QRIScloud's general compute nodes are going to be fitted with new Solid State Drives (SSDs) purchased by NeCTAR. This will allow more instances to be run on these nodes, increasing the overall capacity of QRIScloud.
The upgrade work will be performed progressively, with 1 or 2 compute nodes out of service at any one time. The planned procedure for each compute node is as follows:
3 weeks ago, we sent emails to the Tenant Managers and Tenant Members for all instances that will be affected by the outages. Reminders are being sent today, and we plan to send a one-day warning on Wednesday 16th. These emails include some advice on precautions that users should take to prior to the outage.
We cannot give a precise schedule for the outages, but we will use the @QRIScloud twitter feed to post updates as the upgrade progress.
If you have concerns about the impact of these outages, please contact QRIScloud support; <support@qriscloud.org.au>
Stephen Crawley
QRIScloud Support
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