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CVI Hypervisor upgrades March 18th

 
Description: 

 Microsoft patches and hotfixes will be deployed on:

~220 Hypervisors in the CVI service, hosting Virtual Machines in the Self-Service as well as in hostgroups dedicated to BE/CO, Engineering Services, PH/EDU, 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 'Save 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:
 
           IT-GT  :   lxbsp0531   lxbsp0532   lxbsp0533   lxbsp0534   lxbsp0535
                      lxbsp0536   lxbsp0721   lxbsp0722   lxbsp0723   lxbsp0724
                      lxbsp0725   lxbsp0726   lxbsp0727   lxbsp0728   lxbsp0729
                      lxbsp0730   lxbsp0731   lxbsp0732   lxbsp0733   lxbsp0734
                      lxbsp0735   lxbsp0736   lxbsp0737   lxbsp0738   lxbsp0739
                      lxbsp0740 lxvmpool009 lxvmpool010
    Self-Service  :    cernvs10   cernvs100   cernvs101   cernvs102   cernvs103
                      cernvs104   cernvs105   cernvs106    cernvs11    cernvs12
                       cernvs13    cernvs14    cernvs15    cernvs16    cernvs17
           BE-CO  :   cernvs115   cernvs116   cernvs117   cernvs118   cernvs119
                      cernvs120   cernvs121   cernvs122
          IT-OIS  :    cernvs09   cernvs110    cernvs60    cernvs78
     Engineering  :  caevmsrv50
 
 
 
-- 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: 
Monday, March 18, 2013 - 07:00
End date: 
Monday, March 18, 2013 - 08:30
Service Element Affected: 
Server Provisioning Service
Impact on service: 
Service will be available but degraded
Posted by: 
IT-OIS
Unit responsible for resolution: 
IT Department