NetScaler Firmware Upgrade 10.0 to 10.1

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** Maintenance Announcement – No service interruption anticipated **

On Friday December 20th at 10pm we will be upgrading the Netscalers to version 10.1.  Since they are in HA mode no outages or downtime are expected.  In the unlikely event of problems, changes will be rolled back and the maintenance will be scheduled for a later date.

Start: 12/20/2013 2200

End: 12/20/2013 2259

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 10.5 to 11.0

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** Maintenance Announcement – NO service interruption anticipated **

We are upgrading our StoreVirtual firmware from  LeftHand OS 10.5 -> LeftHand OS 11.0

Production and Dev 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: 12/21/2013 at 9:00 PM

End Time:  12/21/2013 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.

HP 2910al-24g switch firmware

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** Maintenance Announcement – No service interruption anticipated **

We will be applying a firmware update to our iSCSI switches that support our StoreVirtual SAN. This is the storage network that back’s our VMware infrastructure.

We do not anticipate any service interruption. Our switching is redundant, we will only change the switches one at a time, and the changes should not be service interrupting.

Start: 11/09/2013 10:00 PM

End: 11/09/2013 11:00 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.

HP 2910al-24g switch configuration for StoreVirtual/Lefthand OS SAN – Part 4

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Part 4 The Saga Continues.

Everything was nice and quite for a few months for us here regarding this issue. Then classes started and things got a little busy and the problem is back with a vengeance. We have been getting paged once per night. It will be a random switch in the stack not always the same one. We have logged a support case with HP and we got the standard teir1 response of update to the most current firmware. So we will be upgrading to W.15.12.0011 during our next maintenance window. If this does not address the issue we will continue to poke away at the problem!

Part 1 | Part 1 follow up | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4

HP StoreVirtual SAN Maintenance – Dev

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** Emergency Maintenance Announcement – No service interruption anticipated **

We replaced a pre-failing (3:26pm) drive in the Development cluster today. The array will be rebuilding over the next few hours.

Start: 10/27/2013 7:48 PM

End: 10/27/2013 7:48 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.

Add vlan to Blade servers

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We will be working with noc to add vlan 3841 to our blade center’s trunk. This will be done to one trunk port at a time, and one data center at a time.

Start Time: 10/29/13 at 10:00 pm

End Time: 10/29/13 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

HP StoreVirtual SAN Maintenance

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** Maintenance Announcement – No service interruption anticipated **

We will be performing minor maintenance.

We do not anticipate any service interruption.

Start: 10/5/2013 01:00 AM

End: 10/5/2013 01:05 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.

Adding vlans to Blade Servers

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We will be working with noc to add vlans164 and 864 to our blade center’s trunk. This will be done to one trunk port at a time, and one data center at a time.

Start Time: 10/08/13 at 09:00 pm

End Time: 10/08/13 at 10:30 pm

If you have any questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact OSU-SIG ( at ) oregonstate.edu or call 7-7sig

 

Adding two services to Netscalers

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We will be adding two new services to the Netscalers, one will be for blogs.oregonstate.edu and the other will be adding an SSL certificate to media.oregonstate.edu.  After the SSL certificate is added for media.o.e we will redirect all http requests to https.

These changes will not impact current services in anyway, with the exception of media.o.e which will see its http traffic redirected.

 

Start Time: 9/21/13 at 10:00 pm

End Time: 9/21/13 at 11:00 pm

If you have any questions or concerns about this maintenance, please contact OSU-SIG ( at ) oregonstate.edu or call 7-7sig

 

add vlans to blade servers for CSS vm’s

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We will be working with noc to add vlans14, 19,186,807,882 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: 9/07/13 at 10:00 pm

End Time: 9/07/13 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