We will begin applying updated patches to our ESXi hosts this will take awhile to complete all hosts. We do not anticipate any downtime. However we will be causing a significant number of vMotion events and will be running at a higher density then normal.
Author Archives: degeerg
Maintenance Adding Vlan 1276
On Saturday Sept 19th at 9:00pm we will be doing maintenance to add a new VLAN 1276.
This should not cause any outages we will be working with NOC having them plumb it into our infrastructure. We expect this to take less than a hour.
If you have questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact the Shared Infrastructure Group at osu-sig (at) oregonstate.edu or call 737-7SIG.
Maintenance Adding Vlan 412
On September 8, 2015 starting at 9:00pm we will be doing maintenance to add a new VLAN. This should not cause any outages we will be working with NOC having them plumb it into our infrastructure. We expect this to take less than a hour.
If you have questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact the Shared Infrastructure Group at osu-sig (at) oregonstate.edu or call 737-7SIG.
Maintenance Adding Vlan 477 to ESXi hosts and switches 9:00-10:00pm
On August 29th starting at 9:00pm we will be doing maintenance to add a new VLAN this should not cause any outages we will be working with NOC having them plumb it into our infrastructure. We expect this to take less than a hour.
If you have questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact the Shared Infrastructure Group at osu-sig (at) oregonstate.edu or call 737-7SIG.
Apply windows Updates Vcenter-vp02
On Saturday Feb 28th 2015 during our maintenace window starting at 10:00pm I will apply pending windows updates which will require a reboot of the vm. This will take about 10 to 15 minutes before all services are up and running again. During which time the Vsphere web client will not be available.
Adding vlan 3820 Nov 11th
We will be working with NOC to add vlan 3820 to our blade enclosures ports. This will be done to one datacenter at a time.
Start Time: 11/11/2014 at 6:00 am
End Time: 11/11/2014 at 6:30 am
If you have any questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact OSU-SIG ( at ) oregonstate.edu or call 7-7sig
Adding VLAN 300
We will be working with noc to add vlans 300 to our blade centers trunk. This will be done to one trunk port at a time, and one data center at a time.
Start Time: 8/26/2014 at 10:00 pm
End Time: 8/26/2014 at 11:30 pm
If you have any questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact OSU-SIG ( at ) oregonstate.edu or call 7-7sig
Adding Vlan 87, 471 to vmware hosts
We will be working with noc to add vlans 87 and 471 to our blade centers trunk. This will be done to one trunk port at a time, and one data center at a time.
Start Time: 8/9/2014 at 10:00 pm
End Time: 8/9/2014 at 11:30 pm
If you have any questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact OSU-SIG ( at ) oregonstate.edu or call 7-7sig
apply update 5.51a to fix HeartBleed
VMware released a update to fix the openSSL library so I will be appling that update May 3, 2014 at 9:00pm This means vcenter web client will not be available during this upgrade. Scheduling 1.5 hours to be on the safe side.
If you have questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact the Shared Infrastructure Group at osu-sig (at) oregonstate.edu or call 737-7SIG.
Restarting Vcenter Services
I will be restarting vcenter services Saturday the 26th of April from 9:00pm to 9:30pm the webclient will not be available. Were working with EMC was part of the process.
If you have questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact the Shared Infrastructure Group at osu-sig (at) oregonstate.edu or call 737-7SIG.