We have completed the first phase of the moves today and everything should
be back online as of right now. If that's not the case, please send an
email to powerdev-requ...@osuosl.org and we'll get it taken care of.

We'll be moving some of the POWER9 systems tomorrow and should be able to
migrate VMs without any downtime.

Thanks-

On Fri, Jul 1, 2022 at 4:32 PM Lance Albertson <la...@osuosl.org> wrote:

> All,
>
> We need to do some emergency server moves next week starting on Tuesday.
> This is to help balance the power and cooling in the datacenter where these
> systems are located. Most of these moves can be done with little to no
> downtime for users, however there will be some users that will notice
> longer downtimes.
>
> The biggest impact will be any users on any of the two NVMe (local
> storage) hypervisors. We are planning on moving those two systems on
> Tuesday, July 5th between 2-5pm PDT.
>
> Provided we have enough RAM available on all of the systems, we should be
> able to migrate most other users to unaffected systems as we make these
> changes. If not, we may end up shutting down the systems (and the VMs
> hosted on them) while we move the system as quickly as possible.
>
> There is always a possibility that something could go wrong so expect
> outages next week just in case. We'll be moving power distribution units,
> cables and so forth and we may accidentally pull the wrong cable. We always
> try but sometimes things happen.
>
> We will be doing these moves during the workday (PDT) throughout the week.
> I will try to send updates in case there are any unexpected outages if they
> happen.
>
> Thanks for your patience and support!
>
> --
> Lance Albertson
> Director
> Oregon State University | Open Source Lab
>


-- 
Lance Albertson
Director
Oregon State University | Open Source Lab
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