July 18th, 2025 – 00:00 AM to 12 PM – VCEA IT Maintenance – Network Storage

We’re scheduling an outage to move all data from EECS’s legacy NetApp storage appliance to the new NetApp storage appliance. EECS’s legacy NetApp is in a critical health state and long past its end-of-life date. This transfer will require a short period of time where the legacy NetApp is unavailable to clients while data is transferred over to the new NetApp. This outage is to prevent a situation where the data copied to the new storage appliance is out of date due to new data being written to the old device after the transfer.

In order to minimize impact to clients, we’re planning this outage overnight on Thursday (beginning at 12:01AM on Friday), with service expected to be restored on Friday morning. We have built in some extra time into the maintenance window in case the work doesn’t go exactly to plan. If users experience issues after the maintenance window, they should contact the VCEA IT Helpdesk so someone can look into any issues.

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Maintenance Info

POC: VCEA Systems Team (Erik)

What: Data migration from EECS Legacy NetApp to NetApp1

When:

  • Start: Friday July 18, 2025 00:00 PDT
  • End: Friday July 18, 2025 12:00 PDT
  • Duration of outage (EECS Legacy NetApp): Permanent
  • Duration of outage (NetApp1): 2025-07-18 00:00 – 12:00
  • Maintenance or service outages may not last the entire maintenance period. A notification will be sent once maintenance is complete.

Affected resources: EECS network storage, including homedirs, class websites, ictools

Affected users: EECS Legacy hosts users

Notes: N/A

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: Users may need to reboot their computers to connect to new storage appliance after maintenance is complete.

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.

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