Updating research filestore servers

Thursday, 3 June 30 minutes
Complete

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

Complete

The work is now complete. Thanks for your patience.

The upgrade is proceeding smoothly and no further interruption to user-facing services is anticipated.

Underway

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

Scheduled

We will be performing a routine update to the /lifesci and /gpfs_lmf fileservers, upgrading the Spectrum Scale software to the latest version. There will be a momentary interruption in both Samba and NFS operations as the new cluster export services are made active.

Began at:

Affected components
  • Storage and files
    • Research File Store (RFS)