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CalMail maintenance tonight, Aug 5

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CalMail system maintenance will be done tonight from 10:00 p.m. – 2:00 a.m.. Expect intermittent outages between 5-10 minutes in length.

Any updates will be made on the IST website at http://ucbsystems.org/?s=cmr+1069

EECS Network Maintenance on Aug 4

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All network connectivity to EECS may be interrupted for brief periods on the morning of Thurs, Aug 4, 2011 from 5am – 7am while we perform a firmware upgrade on the edge router. The actual outage time is expected to be at most a few minutes within the 2 hour maintenance period we have scheduled. Any concerns or questions can be sent to networks@eecs

Resolved as of 2011-08-04 05:58:00

Sutardja Dai Hall power shutdowns

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Sutardja Dai Hall will have two power shutdowns that impact some storage services. cluster.eecs and inst-fs.eecs will experience a short downtime at the start of each outage, however they will NOT be down for the whole duration of the outage.

The scheduled times for the power outage are as follows:

Thursday July 21st – Power off at 8:00pm and restored at 6am Friday July 22nd

Tuesday July 26th – Power off at 4am and restored at 8am July 26th

Update: the second power shutdown for the 26th was canceled.

Resolved as of 2011-07-26 11:54:00

Storage Migration

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home.eecs and project.eecs will be down from 8pm to midnight on July
12th, 2011 to be migrated to new equipment. The actual downtime is
expected to be much smaller.

The rest of this notice is primarily targeted at system administrators.
If you choose to read this and have questions about some of the
technical details, please contact your system administrator(s).

1) NFS exports will change. AMD/automaps will be updated accordingly.
Most changes will be straightforward. Some project spaces will be
handled differently, see the details below. Note that this implies
a re-mount.

    Old                        New
home:/eecs/<user>     home:/vol/home/eecs/<user>
project:/proj/<name>  project:/vol/proj/<name>

2) CIFS shares will not change (except for the specially-handled project
spaces). However, SMB2 will be enabled (including durable filehandles).

3) The following project spaces will be migrated differently:

     Old NFS export                 New NFS export
project:/proj/aneureuther       cluster:/vol/cproj/aneureuther
project:/proj/b-cam             cluster:/vol/cproj/b-cam
project:/proj/brass             cluster:/vol/cproj/brass
project:/proj/daw-a             cluster:/vol/cproj/daw-a
project:/proj/demmel-d          cluster:/vol/cproj/demmel-d
project:/proj/graham            cluster:/vol/cproj/graham
project:/proj/hilfinger-a       cluster:/vol/cproj/hilfinger-a
project:/proj/iram              cluster:/vol/cproj/iram
project:/proj/jordan-a          cluster:/vol/cproj/jordan-a
project:/proj/millennium        cluster:/vol/cproj/millennium
project:/proj/neureuther        cluster:/vol/cproj/neureuther
project:/proj/neureuther-flcc   cluster:/vol/cproj/neureuther-flcc
project:/proj/neureuther-intel  cluster:/vol/cproj/neureuther-intel
project:/proj/now               cluster:/vol/cproj/now
project:/proj/parlab            cluster:/vol/cproj/parlab
project:/proj/radlab            cluster:/vol/cproj/radlab
project:/proj/tinyos            cluster:/vol/cproj/tinyos
project:/proj/titanium          cluster:/vol/cproj/titanium
project:/proj/vision            cluster:/vol/cproj/vision
project:/proj/vision-b          cluster:/vol/cproj/vision-b
project:/proj/vision-c          cluster:/vol/cproj/vision-c
project:/proj/vision-e          cluster:/vol/cproj/vision-e
project:/proj/yelick            cluster:/vol/cproj/yelick
project:/proj/yelick-old        cluster:/vol/cproj/yelick-old

If the project space in the above list had CIFS share(s) associated with
it, the said share(s) will retain their name, but will now live on
\\\\\\CLUSTER\<share_name>.

If you have questions or concerns about the timing or technical details,
then please email me at aculich@eecs.berkeley.edu or drop by 319 Soda;
as many of you know, Fred Archibald has retired and I have taken over
his role managing IDSG, so whether or not you have storage questions,
feel free to drop by my office to say hello and introduce yourself.
[Read more…] about Storage Migration

Mac OS X Lion coming in July 2011

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Sometime during July 2011, Apple will be releasing their next version
of the Mac OS X operating system,
OS X Lion (10.7).
This version of OS X will be released only via the Mac App Store, and
details of distribution for business and educational customers are
still forthcoming. Once Lion is available, our first order of business
will be to make sure it works with our own network and authentication services.

What we do know, is that the Macbooks purchased as part of the
2011 Laptop bulk purchase will be eligible for a free upgrade to Lion.
As we learn the details of the free upgrades, we will post updates.

For those wishing to upgrade older Intel Macs, you are supposed to first
upgrade to the latest version of Snow Leopard (10.6.8). Snow Leopard appears
to still be available for purchase through the
Apple Store for UC Berkeley
for $29.

Note that we do not generally recommend personal purchases with reimbursement by
UC accounts, due to the overhead costs involved. If you intend to use
university funds for upgrading to Lion, it may be reasonable for your purchasing staff
to order iTunes gift cards directly. Our staff are working with our
Apple Reps to determine the recommended course of action.
[Read more…] about Mac OS X Lion coming in July 2011

EECS Network Outage on June 29

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There was a 15 minute network outage that affected access to external and some internal resources that occurred while performing maintenance on network equipment. The configuration changes made during that time were rolled back and all services have been restored.

Resolved as of 2011-06-29 11:45:00