vCenter Migration

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** Maintenance Announcement – No service interruption anticipated **

We will be migrating from our old vCenter servers to our new vCenter servers. There will be no interruption of service. During the move if Administrators need to gain console access to their VMs they may need to check both vCenter servers to find their VMs. After the moves are complete Administrators will access consoles from the NEW vCenter server.

The new server to connect to is: vcenter.sig.oregonstate.edu.

Regular remote access mechanisms like ssh or remote desktop to the VMs will be unaffected. All VMs and their services will continue to run as normal. There should be no customer impact.

Start: 03/30/2013 9:00 PM

End: 03/30/2013 23:59 PM

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.

LeftHand OS upgrade 10.0 to 10.5

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** Maintenance Announcement – DEV VM service interruption anticipated **

We are upgrading our StoreVirtual firmware from  LeftHand OS 10.0 -> LeftHand OS 10.5. During the upgrade of the storage that provides the DEV VMware cluster will be unavailable, as such the Dev VMware cluster will also be shut down.

Production SANs are redundant and maintenance will have no noticeable effect on these SANs, meaning that the OSU systems used by students, staff, and faculty will not experience a service interruption.

Start Time: 03/26/2013 at 10:30 PM

End Time:  03/27/2013 at 4:00 AM

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.

LeftHand SAN physical node moves

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** Maintenance Announcement – No service interruption anticipated **

We will be moving node1-site2 and node2-site2 from rack mcc-b5 to rack mcc-b6. We are working at a standard rack layout and this will aid in bringing mcc-b6 closer to our anticipated standard for racks with blade centers.

Start: 03/26/2013 9:00 PM

End: 03/26/2013 10:30 PM

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.

Applying outstanding OS patches and VMware tools to our vSphere Infastructure

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** Maintenance Announcement – Partial service interruption anticipated **

We will be patching the OS’s and installing the latest VMware tools against our vCenter server infrastructure. During the first part of this maintenance window support personal will not be able to access vCenter. Because of this support personal will not have remote console access. For example, if a VM has a kernel panic then the support personal will have to wait until maintenance ends to resolve the issue.

Regular remote access mechanisms like ssh or remote desktop to the VMs will be unaffected. All VMs and their services will continue to run as normal. There should be no customer impact.

Start: 03/09/2013 10:00 PM

End: 03/09/2013 11:59:30 PM

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.

Migrate vCenter AD group naming scheme from io_* in IO ou to sig_* in the SIG ou

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** Maintenance Announcement – No service interruption anticipated **

We will me moving existing io_* AD groups for disseminating permissions in vCenter into our official name, under our official Organizational Unit.

Start: 03/04/2013 10:00 PM

End: 03/04/2013 11:30 PM

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.

Adding vLan 810 to production vmware cluster

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** Maintenance Announcement – No service interruption anticipated **

We will be adding vlan 810 to our production blade servers one data center at a time (Milne & Kerr).

Start: 02/16/2013 10:00 PM

End: 02/16/2013 10:30 PM

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.