[premise-users] Premise Ready for Limited Testing

[Thomas J. Baker]

> On Apr 25, 2017, at 11:31 AM, Baker, Thomas J. <Thomas.J.Baker at unh.edu> wrote:
> 
> 
> There will be extended Premise downtime during the week of May 8th while
> Seagate is here to upgrade the lustre appliance to the latest software. Since
> this will involve backing up, removing, and restoring all the data currently 
> on the lustre, cleaning up as much as possible will help speed up the process
> significantly. We ask that by May 5th, you clean up any files you can. 
> 
> From what we know so far, the lustre reconfiguration will start on Monday
> morning and should take until at least Thursday morning to complete. We can
> then start restoring the data which, based on the initial rsync backup time,
> will take another several days to complete. We're hoping Premise will be back
> and fully operational by Monday, May 15th. 
> 
> We will keep you updated as we know more.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> tjb

Premise is ready for wide spread testing. We’ve done our own preliminary testing and things appear to be working well. Don’t start any super long jobs just yet, but feel free to start testing day long ones. We want to have the ability if need be to make any configuration changes without waiting for any longs jobs to complete. 

If after a few days we don’t find any problems, we will declare the system ready for use.

Thanks,

tjb
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