[Scheduled Maintenance] TPAC Node (Tasmania & SA Availability Zones) Outage 16th August Friday 9:00AM until 19th August Monday 9:00AM AEST

There will be a scheduled outage to the TPAC Node (Tasmania & SA Availability Zones) of the Nectar Research Cloud on August 16-19 2019.

Users of the Tasmania & SA zones are advised that during this time will be an outage of all Nectar instances in the Tasmania, Tasmania-s, and SA availability zones. These outages are part of storage maintenance.

To minimize risks to your instances, prior to 9AM Friday 16th of August, please ensure important data is backed up, and critical instances are snapshotted. Please shut down your instances that require an orderly shutdown before the outage window begins, else we will shut them down as necessary during the maintenance window. If your instances are no longer in use, please delete/terminate them.


Guide for snapshotting and backup of cloud instances.


Individual users with affected instances have been notified, and this will be repeated 7 days and 1 day prior to the outage.

If you have any queries regarding this outage, please contact us by email:
support@ehelp.edu.au