Article #686: Fortress HPSS Software Upgrade
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...
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...
The Carter and Conte clusters will be briefly unavailable on Monday, October 13, 2014 for upgrades to the clusters' respective network routers. This u...
Update: the vendor has identified and confirmed a bug in the system's software. The engineers continue assessing the situation and are working on a pl...
The Rossmann cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 for maintenance on the cluster's network interconnect, and for routine operating...
On the morning of Tuesday, February 3, 2015, Hathi login nodes will be rebooted to apply an important Red Hat Linux operating system update.
On the morning of Thursday, February 5, 2015, Carter, Conte, Hansen, Peregrine1, Radon, and Rossmann login servers will be rebooted to apply an impor...
Conte scratch has returned to full production as of approximately 2:15 pm. Update: February 26, 2015 1:20pm Radon scratch has returned to full produc...
As of 3:15 pm the maintenance is complete and Research Data Depot is returned to full production. Original message: The storage servers powering the R...
ROSSMANN IS ALIVE Rossmann Cluster is now back online. Kudos to the maintenance team and thanks for your patience! UPDATE 17 March, 2015 Our systems e...
The Radon cluster will be unavailable on Tuesday, 17 March, 2015. On that day, Radon's job scheduler will be updated, and its network connection to it...
UPDATE As of 9:00 pm Tuesday, 14 April, 2015, the Conte cluster is back in full production mode. During the maintenance, all nodes were checked for r...
UPDATE As of 4:45 pm Tuesday, May 19, all the work noted below has been completed and both Hansen and Peregrine-1 have been returned to full service....
Software upgrades on Rice Cluster have been completed by 7:30pm. It is now open for access by early adopters. Please let us know if you see any issue...
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...
The Hammer, Hathi, Radon, and Snyder cluster will be unavailable beginning at Wednesday, July 1, 2015 from 8:00am - 12:00pm EDT, for scheduled mainten...
The Peregrine1 cluster will be unavailable beginning at August 17, 2015 8:00am - August 19, 2015 6:00pm EDT, for scheduled maintenance. The cluster...
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...
Update: September 23, 2015 8am Shortly after 2am, Engineers were able to complete the file transfer and return Carter back to production. Update: Sept...
Update: September 22, 2015 1pm The work affecting Hansen and Peregrine1 scratch filesystems has been completed and the clusters are back in full produ...
The scratch filesystem serving Carter/Scholar underwent emergency maintenance through Friday night and well into Saturday. We expect this work to res...