Article #475: Fortress archive system being upgraded to HPSS
Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) is upgrading the research computing archival storage system Fortress. Currently based upon EMC's DiskXtender (...
Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) is upgrading the research computing archival storage system Fortress. Currently based upon EMC's DiskXtender (...
UPDATE: Archive Conversion moved to Oct. 7-14 Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP) is upgrading the research computing archival storage system Fort...
Update 12/2/11 (4:15pm) The tape robot has been returned to service and Fortress is back in production. Please contact us at rcac-help@purdue.edu if y...
Update - 1/9/2012 The repairs to the ADIC tape library have been completed and Fortress' tape functionality is back in operation. Update - 1/6/2012 Fo...
Update - April 11, 2012 240pm At around 240pm, ITaP engineers have restored communications between the HPSS system and the tape library. Access to For...
In August 2012, some RCAC systems will be down for maintenance for up to three days in order to accommodate electrical service and chilled water upgr...
From 8:00am-12pm on Friday, September 7, 2012, the ADIC Scalar 10K library serving the Fortress archive will be unavailable while emergency preventati...
Updated, 3/29/2013 During the datacenter migration the core server for the Fortress HPSS system experienced a failure with its boot device. Vendor eng...
Resolved: As of about 4:45pm ET, the connectivity issue affecting the Fortress archive has been resolved. The HPSS archive is back in full production....
Update - 10:15 am Fortress is back in full production. Original Message: As of 8:00am, Thursday, September 19, the Fortress HPSS is temporarily unavai...
The Fortress HPSS Archive is offline due to issues with their storage systems relating to the power loss on the West Lafayette campus in the wake of t...
The IBM T3584 tape library serving Fortress is scheduled to be down Wednesday, March 19, 2014 from 8AM to 5PM for a hardware upgrade. Additional tape...
UPDATE: Fortress was successfully returned to service as of 7:35 pm Wednesday, 15 July. As of 8:30am on July 15, 2014, the Fortress HPSS Archive is un...
ITaP Research Computing is pleased to announce the deployment of a Purdue-specific login page to manage your data transfers with Globus. Globus is a p...
Update The issues with the HPSS upgrade have been resolved with assistance from the vendor and the system is now in normal operations. Anyone using H...
Due to a network issue at the Indiana GigaPOP, connectivity to RCAC resources from off campus is intermittent. Access to the research computing web si...
Fortress Samba service has been restored as of 10:15am on Monday, June 8th. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused and thanks for your pat...
The Fortress data archiving services will be unavailable starting 8:00AM on 23 June, 2015 due to a scheduled maintenance. During this outage, our stor...
As of 11:55 pm August 18, 2015, Fortress/HPSS has been brought back online. Storage engineers continue working on bringing upgraded Fortress up and d...
The Fortress Archive service, Fortress, will be unavailable starting Wednesday, November 4th, 2015 at 6:00am EST for regular maintenance and will retu...