At risk notification and brief outage of departmental filestore - week beginning 28 October 2024 Planned Maintenance

Description

From Monday, 28 October, until Thursday, 7 November, an essential upgrade will take place to the departmental filestore (sometimes referred to as GPFS). During the upgrade, the service will remain accessible but should be considered at risk. However, a brief outage of approximately two hours is required. We cannot confirm the exact time of the outage, but it will take place outside core working hours to provide minimal disruption. The exact timing will be added to this status page when timings are known. This work may affect some (but not all) filestores accessed via: \\ads.bris.ac.uk\filestore \\ads.bris.ac.uk\folders \\ads.bris.ac.uk\servers \\ads.bris.ac.uk\software Please note that a wide range of services use elements of the departmental filestore to perform certain functions. Elements of business services may be affected and include, but are not limited to, the following services: - BS:ZB-SSCM Redcap BS:ZB-SSCM HPC hosting BS:ZB-ALSPAC filestore BS:ZC-RX-Works BS:ZB-SSCM file storage BS:ZB-SOCS file storage BS: Voicemail Service BS:Voicemail Service VOIP BS:Personal Web Page Service BS:ZD-GELY Geophysics Suite BS:ZD-CHEM Teaching data upload service BS:SSO Business 2 Jasig CAS 2.0.12 BS:Temporary Network Storage IT staff will check services to ensure quick recovery if any issues arise. If you have any queries or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact the IT Service Desk at bristol.ac.uk/it-services/contacts (Ref: C2408-273)

Components

Departmental Filestore, Other services

Schedule

October 28, 2024 9:00AM - November 7, 2024 5:00PM GMT



October 28, 2024 9:00AM GMT
[Update] Scheduled maintenance is starting.

November 7, 2024 5:00PM GMT
[Update] Scheduled maintenance is complete.

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