Downtime Saturday 26/11

We need some downtime on the Stornext storage system on Saturday 26/11 to look into some stability problems with our NFS server.  

It involves the storage metadata controllers, so we need to take down all servers and workstations directly connected to the Stornext system:

login.astro.uio.no
algol, dubhe, electra, electra2, enir, euclid21, karbana, mimosa2, shaula
achernar, aramec, nekkar, papsukal
owl1-owl28
beehive26 - beehive28
charybdis1 - charybdis3, proxima
All OS-X Mac Pro workstations

The other workstations will be up, but access to the StorNext disks will hang when the NFS-server is down.

I will also use the opportunity to install a StorNext upgrade that was just released.

I will start shutting down Saturday morning, and expect to have everything back up later in the day (if I don’t run into unforseen problems).

Status:

06:30 Shutdown of clients

09:00 Shutdown of NFS and login servers

10:35 StorNext upgrade to version 5.4.0.1 of metadata controllers complete

12:00 NFS server upgraded to 5.4.0.1 and up. Seems to be stable now.

15:30 login.uio.no ready. All linux machines upgraded to 5.4.0.1

15:30 Mac OS-X workstations coming up. We will upgrade firmware, so wait with login until we post here that they are read

17:14 Mac firmware upgrades done (except black and senshu). All macs up.

17:20 Done.

 

By Torben Leifsen
Published Nov. 25, 2016 11:44 AM - Last modified Nov. 26, 2016 5:18 PM