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CVI Hypervisor updates June 18th

 
Description: 

Microsoft patches and hotfixes will be deployed as follows:

~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).
 
 
On Tuesday 18 June the following machines will be upgraded:
 
           IT-GT  :   lxbsp0537   lxbsp0538   lxbsp0539   lxbsp0540
                      lxbsp0711   lxbsp0712   lxbsp0713   lxbsp0714
                      lxbsp0715   lxbsp0716   lxbsp0717   lxbsp0718
                      lxbsp0719   lxbsp0720 lxvmpool007 lxvmpool008
                    lxvmpool026 lxvmpool027 lxvmpool028 lxvmpool029
 
     Engineering  :  caevmsrv12  caevmsrv13  caevmsrv14  caevmsrv15
                     caevmsrv16  caevmsrv51
 
    Self-Service  :   cernvs134   cernvs135   cernvs136   cernvs137
                       cernvs19    cernvs23
 
          EN-ICE  :    cernvs50    cernvs51    cernvs53    cernvs54
 
          IT-OIS  :   cernvs111    cernvs52    cernvs55    cernvs79
                       cernvs82   lxbsp0710   lxbsp0744
 
          PH-EDU  :    cernvs40    cernvs41    cernvs42    cernvs43
                       cernvs44    cernvs45    cernvs46    cernvs47
                       cernvs48    cernvs49
 
Specific Service Detail: 
CERN Virtualization Infrastructure (CVI)
Reason for this intervention: 

Installation of security updates and hotfixes in the hypervisors

Effective from date: 
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 - 07:00
End date: 
Tuesday, June 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