IDRC Infrastructure maintenance notification - March 31 / April 1 - 9AM

[Tirloni, Giovanni]

Maintenance is in progress.

On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:48 +0000, "Tirloni, Giovanni" <gtirloni at ocadu.ca>
wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> One of our vendors needs to upgrade equipment in the data centre next
> week (Tue-Wed), starting at 9AM. This activity will result in downtime
> for the following sites:
> 
> www.idrc.ocad.ca
> timetrack.idrc.ocad.ca
> metadata.floeproject.org
> build.fluidproject.org
> wiki.fluidproject.org
> atutor.snow.idrc.ocad.ca
> mobile-accessibility.idrc.ocad.ca
> www.snow.idrc.ocad.ca
> deep.idrc.ocad.ca
> snowvids.idrc.ocad.ca
> clinic.idrc.ocad.ca
>  
>  Changes to the Nebula cluster hardware and software will mean each site
>  could be offline anywhere between 20 minutes to an hour. Services get
>  provisioned in the cluster on servers that have the most spare
>  resources available at any given time. As a result most of these sites
>  are spread over several machines in a somewhat random fashion.
>  
>  The vendor in question has requested that we schedule 4 hours of
>  downtime each day. This is mainly to establish a buffer, actual
>  downtime is expected to be shorter than that.
> 
>  Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.
> 
> Regards,
> Giovanni