Nimbus maintenance on Alamo

Submitted by Warren Smith on Mon, 30 Sep 2013, 09:12:09 GMT

FutureGrid Hardware Outage Information

Nimbus maintenance on Alamo

Status
Resolved
Type
Maintenance
Impacted systems
alamo
Start of outage
Tue, 01 Oct 2013, 08:00 EDT
Anticipated end of outage
Wed, 02 Oct 2013, 18:00 EDT

Description

We'll be investigating ways to improve the networking performance of virtual machines.

update: Running virtual machines will be stopped so that we can upgrade the kernel on the Nimbus nodes. In addition, users won't be able to start new virtual machines during the maintenance time.

update 2: Maintenance will continue into Wednesday so that we can complete our planned improvements.

Resolution

Fixed certificate problems

Added support for qcow2 images.

Improved networking performance to VMs.

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