Downtime Schedule for 2019-2020 Academic Year

The following is a tentative maintenance downtime scheduled for the 2019-2020 academic year.  The majority of downtimes are the first Tuesday of each month but some may be moved to accommodate holidays or  the academic calendar.  

 

Please note: This schedule can, and likely will change, to respond to vendor software updates, critical security patches released off-schedule, or unplanned problems.  We will update this page as soon as any decisions are made that affect the schedule.

 

Types of downtimes:

Center-wide – all services at CCR affected

Cluster-wide – all clusters affected but no other services

Cluster-specific – some, but not all, clusters affected but no other services

Cloud – all cloud services affected but no other CCR services

 

Services to be Updated:

FreeIPA – LDAP & authentication servers

Foreman – Installation servers - clusters affected

DNS – 1-2 times per year; done during center-wide downtimes only

Isilon Storage – 1-2 times per year; center-wide

Arista Networking – once per year; center-wide

GPFS Storage – once per year; cluster-wide

SLURM – all clusters affected; aim to update 4 times/year; dependent on software release schedule

Cloud - affects the CCR research cloud only; no other services affected

 

Downtime Dates & Tentative Update Plan



6/25/19 - Cluster-wide:   Operating system updates & reboot


7/23/19 - CENTERWIDE:  Details


8/13-14/19  -   CENTERWIDEDetails


8/26/19 - Fall classes Begin


9/24/19  -  Cluster-wide:   Details


10/29/19 -  Cluster-wide:   Details


11/26/19 -  Cluster-wide:   Details


12/6/19 - last day of classes

12/16/19 - last day of final exams


12/17/19 -  Cluster-wide:    Details 


1/21/20 -  Cluster-wide:  Details 


1/27/20 - Spring classes begin


2/25/20 -  Cluster-wideDetails


3/16-21/20 - Spring recess


3/17/20 -  Cluster-wide (moved due to spring recess)Details


4/28/20 -   CENTERWIDE:  Details


5/8/20 - last day of classes

5/16/20 - last day of exams


5/26/20 -  Cluster-wide Details


6/30/20 -  Cluster-wide Details


8/4/20 - Cluster-wide Details


9/1/20 - Cluster-wide  Details


Academic Year 20-21 Schedule coming soon