[2021-01-04 12:00 – 2021-01-07 7:44 PDT] VCEA IT General Scheduled Maintenance – Chilled Water Shutdown

In coordination with WSU Facilities who is making major cooling improvements to our primary EME 106 server room, during the first work week of January 2021 we will be running in limited operations and in the evenings shutting down core college servers.

  • During the days (7:45am – 5:14pm ) we will focus on keeping network storage, virtual machines, and core remote work systems online.  Research computing systems will be limited (or completely shut down) during this time based on ability of installed secondary cooling.
  • During the nights (5:15pm – 7:44am) we will need to shut off ALL network storage, virtual machines, and remote work systems.  Again, research computing systems will be limited (or completely shut down) during this time based on ability of installed secondary cooling.

MyFacilities estimated cooling outage time is 6am Jan 05 – 4pm Jan 06. Our scheduled outage time is introducing a major buffer to allow us to prep the room and safely bring systems offline and then back online.

As you see fit, this maintenance notification is suitable for end-user consumption or publication.

See below for maintenance info.

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Maintenance Info

POC: VCEA Systems Team | support.vcea@wsu.edu | (509)335-6773

What: All college research/compute nodes, virtual machines, and network storage.

When:

  • Start: Monday January 04, 2021 12:00 PT
  • End:  Thursday January 07, 2021 07:44 PT
  • Duration of outage (Mon, Jan 04)
    • 12:00-17:14 = start turning off research computing systems
    • 17:15-23:59 = ALL systems (servers, networks, storage, compute) turned offline
  • Duration of outage (Tues, Jan 05)
    • 00:00 – 07:44 = ALL systems (servers, networks, storage, compute) turned offline & prepare for limited operations
    • 07:45 – 17:14 = operate in limited capacity, with research computing systems offline
    • 17:15 – 23:59 = if necessary, ALL systems (servers, networks, storage, compute) turned offline
  • Duration of outage (Wed, Jan 06)
    • 00:00 – 07:44 = turning on network storage, virtual machines, and core remote work systems
    • 07:45 – 17:14 = operate in limited capacity, with research computing systems offline
    • 17:15 – 23:59 = if necessary, ALL systems (servers, networks, storage, compute) turned offline for final work
  • Duration of outage (Thurs, Jan 07)
    • 00:00 – 07:44 = bringing all systems back online, checking services
  • Maintenance or service outages may not last the entire maintenance period. A notification will be sent once maintenance is complete.

Affected resources: All college research/compute nodes, virtual machine hosting, and network storage.

Affected users: All VCEA faculty, staff, and students.

Notes: Customers should save/close all their open files and log out of their systems by 5pm every day during this maintenance.  Clusters using a scheduler will be able to schedule jobs, but they will be blocked/held until the end of the maintenance period.

Notification procedures: A notification will be sent as a response to this email when maintenance is complete, or if there are issues/complications. A notification will be sent as a response to this email if this maintenance is rescheduled.

Follow-up actions required:

If users encounter problems with services after the maintenance window is over, they should contact the VCEA Helpdesk online at support.vcea.wsu.edu, by email at support.vcea@wsu.edu, or by phone at (509)335-6773.