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CVI Hypervisor upgrades March 21st

 
Description: 

Microsoft patches and hotfixes will be deployed as follows 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-OIS  :    cernvs08    cernvs36    cernvs56    cernvs57    cernvs70
                       cernvs73    cernvs74    cernvs75    cernvs76    cernvs77
                      lxbsp0701   lxbsp0702   lxbsp0703   lxbsp0704   lxbsp0705
                      lxbsp0706   lxbsp0707   lxbsp0708   lxbsp0709
     Engineering  :  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
    Self-Service  :    cernvs34
 
 
-- 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, March 21, 2013 - 07:00
End date: 
Thursday, March 21, 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