Updates to backend file servers

Thursday, 3 June 3 hours
Complete
Complete

The work is now complete. Thanks for your patience.

The compute cluster backend server update is proceeding smoothly and we do not anticipate any further interruption in user-facing services.

Lifesci and LMF server update complete. No further disruption to user-facing services anticipated for these. Proceeding with the compute cluster file servers.

Underway

The work is underway. We'll keep you updated on our progress.

Scheduled

The software vendor (IBM) have released a hotfix to the latest Spectrum Scale software version, which they recommend we apply as soon as possible. This update will require a brief interruption in both samba and NFS services.

This update will affect both /lifesci and /gpfs_lmf fileservers, as well as the /cluster fileservers. The LFS fileserver will be updated to the latest version on Tuesday 8th June.

Began at:

Affected components
  • High Performance Compute (HPC) Cluster
  • Storage and files
    • Research File Store (RFS)