Affected services:

  • Merlin Web Interface
  • Merlin API
  • Merlin Storage
  • Merlin Hypervisors
  • Merlin Networking

Merlin upgrade and maintenance (completed)

Scheduled for Monday 18th October 2021 at 09:00 (Amsterdam)

Schedule/description of work

Upgrading Merlin openstack version and performing other maintenance. We plan to do this without any downtime or effects for our customers, but some service interruptions may occur.

Scheduled start time
October 18, 2021 09:00
Duration
7 days
Status
Finished

Updates

All of our planned maintenance for this session has been completed successfully. if there are any problems, please do not hesitate to contact us at hpc at rug dot nl.

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We have moved Ceph storage backend traffic to its own dedicated networking infastructure, there may have been a short interruption but it should not have cause any problems

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The cloud is now updated to wallaby. There was an issue with the nova api services that has been resolved.

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After some adjustments Victoria seems to be running more stable than the ussuri installation did. The upgrade to Wallaby has been started. Again, some interruptions in the user interface are to be expected.

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We're upgraded to Victoria but we're still seeing some of the same instability in the management environment we saw on Ussuri. We want to look into this some more before we continue to upgrade to Wallaby. We will keep you informed through this page.

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Maintenance on the Liqid infrastructure has been completed successfully

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Node 18 is empty and out of use, we will request spare parts with our vendor.

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We're restarting some of the Liqid infrastructure, this could affect machines running on the Liqid compute nodes

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During maintenance we discovered an issue with Merlin node 18. We will attempt to seamlessly migrate all running instances to different nodes without downtime.

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The preparations are finished and the first playbook will be run. Disruptions in the web user interface are to be expected.

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