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Service Consolidation Infrastructure patching campaign

 
Description: 

Security and stability updates will be progressively deployed on the physical hosts (hypervisors) providing the Service Consolidation infrastructure during the week of July 16th. The update deployment is expected to be transparent, though it should be noted that the virtual machines might occasionally stop responding for a few seconds during the operation (while their state is being transferred between hypervisors).

Specific Service Detail: 
Virtual machines hosted on the IT-PES-PS SERVICE infrastructure, in particular VOboxes
Reason for this intervention: 

Deployment of security and stability updates on physical hosts providing the Service Consolidation infrastructure.

Effective from date: 
Monday, July 16, 2012 - 10:00
End date: 
Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 16:00
Service Element Affected: 
Multiple Services
Impact on service: 
Intervention should be transparent
Posted by: 
IT-PES
Unit responsible for resolution: 
IT Department