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CVI Hypervisor upgrades June 21st

 
Description: 

Microsoft patches and hotfixes will be deployed as follows on:

~200 Hypervisors in the CVI service, hosting Virtual Machines in the Self-Service as well as in hostgroups dedicated to BE/CO, Engineering Services, IT/GT, EN/ICE, IT/UDS, IT/OIS and IT/CS.
 
The upgrades will take place between 07:00 and 08:30, and involve a reboot of the hypervisors. The Virtual Machines hosted on those servers will be automatically suspended into a 'Saved State', and will resume once the hypervisor has restarted (typically within 5 minutes). From the VM perspective this intervention is therefore largely transparent.
 
All Virtual Machines are expected to be back by 08:30.
 
Up-to-date information about which of the hypervisors host which Virtual Machine can be obtained from the VMM website (go to https://vmm.cern.ch -> "Manage my Machines" -> Click on VM name for details -> Look for "VM Host") or from the LANdb Network Database (http://network.cern.ch).
 
 
The upgrade schedule is:
 
           BE-CO  :    cernvs64    cernvs65    cernvs66    cernvs67
        Eng Serv  :  caevmsrv26  caevmsrv27  caevmsrv28  caevmsrv29  caevmsrv30
                     caevmsrv31  caevmsrv33  caevmsrv34  caevmsrv35  caevmsrv36
                     caevmsrv37  caevmsrv38  caevmsrv39  caevmsrv40  caevmsrv41
                     caevmsrv42  caevmsrv43  caevmsrv44  caevmsrv45  caevmsrv46
                     caevmsrv47  caevmsrv53  caevmsrv54  caevmsrv55  caevmsrv56
                     caevmsrv57
 
 
After an update on the previous days (18-20/06). Additional reboot is necessary on the following Hypervisors:
 
    Self-Service  :    cernvs27    cernvs32
          EN-ICE  :    cernvs82
           IT-GT  :  lxvmpool08
 
The reboot is planned at 7:30 AM.
 
 
-- CVI support team
 
Specific Service Detail: 
CERN Virtualization Infrastructure
Reason for this intervention: 

Installation of security updates and hotfixes in the hypervisors

Effective from date: 
Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 07:00
End date: 
Thursday, June 21, 2012 - 08:30
Service Element Affected: 
Server Hosting Service
Impact on service: 
Service will be available but degraded
Posted by: 
IT-OIS
Unit responsible for resolution: 
IT Department