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.