Iowa State University

Information Technology

Virtual Server Environment hardware updates

Status	Completed
Start	4 Feb 2012 8:00 am
End	4 Feb 2012 12:00 pm

February 4, 2012 at 2:55pm (Followup Post)
Posted February 4, 2012 at 2:55pm by Troy Van De Kreeke ()
All planned work is complete. There was some miscommunication and a host running 17 VMs was inadvertently reset at approximately 10:29 AM. All services were recovered and appropriate staff contacted.

February 2, 2012 at 3:45pm (Followup Post)
Posted February 2, 2012 at 3:45pm by Troy Van De Kreeke ()
Current plans are to attempt firmware updates Saturday Feb 4th from 8AM to noon. If failover capacity is insufficient, some pre-identified test/dev VMs may be shut down during this time. We'll work with those clients in advance.

February 2, 2012 at 6:25am (Followup Post)
Posted February 2, 2012 at 6:25am by Troy Van De Kreeke ()
An unexpected error occurred on one of the ESX hosts, impacting a portion of the VMs running on it. Planned firmware updates have been cancelled. We've reset/restarted any VMs that appeared to be imapacted/unreachable. Staff/clients are encouraged to validate their applications are functioning properly. Maintenance will be rescheduled for another day.

February 4, 2012 at 8:00am (Original Post)
Posted January 27, 2012 at 2:51pm by Troy Van De Kreeke ()
Firmware updates will be done to a portion of the hardware servers that support the virtual server environment. No downtime is expected for any services during this time. All VMs will run from the primary data center during the update process and the secondary site will be unavailable until the upgrades are completed.