Instructional & Research Information Systems
repo.eecs will be taken offline Thursday, Feb 18, 2016, at 6pm, while we migrate the back-end storage to our new storage hardware.
Resolved as of 2016-02-18 18:58:00
As
previously announced, we are in process of migrating our central file storage
system to a new cluster of Network Appliance hardware.
Beginning February 15 (President’s Day), we will be migrating project and cluster
storage spaces to the new hardware. Initial synchronizations will be done over the
next two weeks, so that the final sync and cutover time will be reduced for the larger project spaces.
We are initially proposing the following schedule:
Time Project New mount
Feb 15 6:00-6:30pm /cproj/nlp proj40.eecs:/nlp
Feb 15 6:15-7:00pm /proj/ptolemy proj40.eecs:/ptolemy
Feb 15 6:45-7:30pm /proj/parlab proj40.eecs:/parlab
Feb 15 6:45-7:30pm /proj/radlab proj30.eecs:/proj30/radlab
Feb 15 7:15-8:00pm /proj/efros proj10.eecs:/efros
Feb 15 9:00pm-7:00am /cproj/(others) proj40.eecs:/cproj/(sharename)
Feb 16 8pm-7am /proj/[a-c]* proj10.eecs:/proj10/(sharename)
Feb 17 8pm-7am /proj/[d-q]* proj20.eecs:/proj20/(sharename)
Feb 18 8pm-7am /proj/[r-z]* proj30.eecs:/proj30/(sharename)
Feb 19 8pm-7am Followup/postponed and missed migrations
If migration of your project space needs to be postponed or scheduled for
a specific time, please
let us know at help@eecs. We know that downtime for
some project spaces needs to be minimized, and
we’ll do our best to coordinate another time with you.
As with the home directories, NFS exports will change. Automount maps will be updated at the designated migration start time. Re-mounts of project spaces will be necessary.
CIFS mounts should use the new node hostnames for best performance, with the
usual sharename, e.g. \\\\proj20.eecs\macsww
Unix SWW is moving to our new storage hardware. There are some changes
to the layout, reflecting the elimination of separately-shared subdirectories.
The new layout is available at:
https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/idsg/sww/announcement/SWW-layout
EESWW has also been migrated. See our Unix EESWW info.
Automount maps have already been updated. If you are using the automount maps
to mount SWW or EESWW, you won’t need to make any changes on your side, but you may need to
remount/reboot to begin using the revised location. Statically-configured mounts
of SWW or EESWW will need to be updated.
The old SWW locations will continue to work until at least March 15th 2016. At that
time the old exports will be terminated.
[Read more…] about Changes to Unix SWW NFS exports
Resolved as of 2016-02-10 09:11:00
As
previously announced, we are in process of migrating our central file storage
system to a new cluster of Network Appliance hardware. We recently completed the
first
batch of migrations.
We are planning to migrate additional home directories
according to the following schedule:
Start time
Wed Jan 27 7pm Usernames a-h
Thu Jan 28 7pm Usernames i-o
Fri Jan 29 7pm Usernames p-z
You may view the list of accounts targeted for this migration here:
List of homes to migrate
We expect each night’s migration to be completed by 7am the next morning.
Home directories targeted for a given evening will become unavailable at 7pm, as
automount maps are updated. When your home directory migration is completed,
you will be sent an automated email telling you so, and it will be immediately
available for use.
If you require postponement of your home directory migration, please let us know
as soon as possible at help@eecs. We’ll do our best to accommodate you,
and schedule an alternate time for migration.
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(The following is reproduced from the previous announcement.)
If you manually mount your home directory, please read on for changes.
If you have questions about some of the technical details,
please contact your system administrator(s), or contact help@eecs.
1) NFS exports will change. AMD/automaps will be updated accordingly.
Note that this implies a re-mount.
usernames Old New
a-h home:/vol/home/eecs/<user> home10:/home10/<user>
i-q home:/vol/home/eecs/<user> home20:/home20/<user>
r-z home:/vol/home/eecs/<user> home30:/home30/<user>
2) CIFS/Windows access will change similarly. Active Directory will be updated
accordingly, so that corresponding H: drives will be mounted from the new
location.
usernames Old New
a-h \\home\<user> \\home10\<user>
i-q \\home\<user> \\home20\<user>
r-z \\home\<user> \\home30\<user>
As
previously announced, we are in process of migrating our central file storage
system to a new cluster of Network Appliance hardware.
We have identified 703 home directories on home.eecs.berkeley.edu that are
not under immediate, active use, and will be migrating them to the new file
storage beginning late tonight, January 22, 2016. Active use was assessed using
timestamps of top level home directory, last Active Directory login, last CIFS access,
NFS mounts and netstat output. We anticipate that most of the migrations
in this first batch will take just a few minutes, and that the whole first batch
will be complete before Monday.
You may view the list of home directories that are part of this first-batch migration here:
List of home directories to migrate
During the migration, access to the old location will be disabled; you will
be able to access the new location immediately, as files are copied over.
Many users may never notice a difference. If you manually mount your
home directory, please read on for changes.
If you have questions about some of the technical details,
please contact your system administrator(s), or contact help@eecs.
1) NFS exports will change. AMD/automaps will be updated accordingly.
Note that this implies a re-mount.
usernames Old New
a-h home:/vol/home/eecs/<user> home10:/home10/<user>
i-q home:/vol/home/eecs/<user> home20:/home20/<user>
r-z home:/vol/home/eecs/<user> home30:/home30/<user>
2) CIFS/Windows access will change similarly. Active Directory will be updated
accordingly, so that corresponding H: drives will be mounted from the new
location.
usernames Old New
a-h \\home\<user> \\home10\<user>
i-q \\home\<user> \\home20\<user>
r-z \\home\<user> \\home30\<user>
We plan to schedule the migration of the remaining home directories on home.eecs
in the coming week. Please stay tuned for more information.
[Read more…] about Migration of Home Directories — First Batch
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, January 12th, 2016.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, January 13th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, January 13th, depending on additional software updates.
[Read more…] about Jan 2016 Windows Server Patching
Due to the Winter Holiday, Energy Curtailment, and New Year’s Holidays,
the Berkeley campus is officially closed for the period Thursday,
December 24 to Friday, January 1st, reopening on Monday, January 4, 2015.
All departmental computing servers will remain on and should be available
during the break, but there will be no staff on site to provide any
computing support or handle any requests. Automatic monitoring systems
will alert staff to critical infrastructure problems, and any such
problems will be dealt with on a best-effort basis. IRIS staff will
be taking advantage of the holiday to do maintenance on some systems
which will result in scattered outages, but any such downtime will be
separately announced and posted on the IRIS website.
The IRIS Helpdesk will close early at 3pm on Wednesday December 23,
and will reopen on Monday January 4. Problem reports can be left on the
Helpdesk voice mail (510-642-7777) or emailed to help@eecs, but staff
may not receive or reply to these messages until January 4.
Requests for new IRIS accounts that are received after 3pm December 23
will be processed on January 4, 2015.
During the break, Instructional labs will be locked, but the main servers
will remain online (imail.eecs, inst.eecs, cory.eecs, and
fileservice.eecs). Instructional support staff will occasionally monitor
inst@eecs email over the break. If you are unable to contact inst@eecs,
you can leave a message at 510-643-6141. Please be aware, though, that
staff may not be able to respond or reply to messages until January 4.
We recommend that all desktop computers be shutdown during the Energy
Curtailment Period. If your Windows computer needs to stay on during
the break, we recommend that you check with your system administrator to
ensure that Automatic Updates are enabled with the option “Automatically
download the updates and install them on the schedule that I specify”
with a daily update schedule.
Computing support staff will be monitoring their email when possible,
so please use standard email addresses to report any urgent problems. As
a reminder:
Instructional Computing Environment: inst@eecs
Research / Staff Computing Environment: help@eecs
Enjoy your holiday break!
Campus has announced that starting on January 5, 2016, individual users will no longer be able to send email through the CalMail SMTP server (using calmail.berkeley.edu as outgoing SMTP server). See https://bconnected.berkeley.edu/news/important-information-bmail-users-using-calmail-send-mail
Affected users have been identified and contacted directly via email by the bConnected Service Team.
Use of the bMail web interface is not affected. Alternate mail clients such as Outlook, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail, should use smtp.gmail.com as outgoing SMTP server, with a bConnected Key.
IRIS continues to maintain gateway.eecs.berkeley.edu as an alternate outgoing SMTP server. Some pointers for specific configuration of Outlook, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail can be found in our FAQ pages.
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