SDSC networking upgrade

Submitted by Shava Smallen on Wed, 07 Sep 2011, 10:59:23 GMT

FutureGrid Hardware Outage Information

SDSC networking upgrade

Status
Resolved
Type
Network
Impacted systems
sierra, storage at SDSC
Start of outage
Tue, 20 Sep 2011, 17:00 PDT
Anticipated end of outage
Tue, 20 Sep 2011, 21:00 PDT

Description

On Tuesday, September 20th, 2011 from 5:00pm-9:30pm SDSC will be performing a major upgrade to the SDSC network environment. In preparation for the upcoming migration to the new Juniper MX-960 network equipment we must upgrade from HSRP, a Cisco proprietary routing protocol, to VRRP, an IEEE industry standard protocol.

These new and more reliable Juniper routers provide the capability to have multiple back-up routers with greatly decreased failover time, improved multicast functionality, support for larger routing tables with minimal overhead, and lower latency packet forwarding.

From 5:00pm to 9:30pm connectivity to and from SDSC will be limited or totally unavailable. Status will be updated on our off-site status page, http://status.sdsc.edu.

Resolution

Network upgrades have been completed.

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