Georgia Advanced Computing Resource Center

Aug 22 outage

"W" means "don't know When this task will be done"

Soon: /etc/motd on pcluster, zcluster

Sometime Tuesday: message to users

Wednesday:
2 PM: VM snapshots

3 PM:
  disable logins pcluster
  disable logins zcluster (except for jkissing, students)

  kick users off pcluster
  kick users off zcluster?

  drain all nodes or queues, pcluster
  disable all queues except somedevq, zcluster

  kill all jobs pcluster
  kill all jobs zcluster

  do GE jobs testing MPI and storage I/O throughput
    CC to use fsr15 for iozone
    ST to use fsr12 for MPI/NAMD
    PB to use fsr7 for dumb I/O

  stop execd on all nodes, zcluster
  shut down racks 8,9,10,11

4 PM:
 CC reconfigs NICs/LAGs on storage units
 PB modify PanFS blksize on remaining nodes
 PB shut down VMs
 shut down 3070s
 shut down Panasas 

  connect ESX IPMI cat5
	       W: "final rsyncs" of /db, /usr/local
              W: Curtis reconfig storage unit NICs/LAGs
              W: PanFS 16K blksize on remaining nodes and zcluster.rcc

by 5PM:
we tell NEG "go ahead"
CC recable storage unit cat5, and work with Brian M on switch port configs

probably between 9 and 12PM, NEG finishes

****  AFTER ******
"Midnight" (when NEG is done):
power up 3070s
power up Panasas
power up ESX servers and VMs
start final rsyncs
power up racks 8,9,10,11

"Morning" (starting by 8AM)=======================================================

panasas OS upgrade
switch and test /db, /usr/local mounts on the zcluster

do GE jobs testing MPI and storage I/O throughput

enable Panasas jumbo frames and reboot Panasas

VMWare updates

   W: GE upgrade
   W: yum updates of nodes
   W: yum update of zhead
   W: update FW on Dells
   W: move some rack15 nodes to rack 16?
   W: reinstall rack11?
   W: thumper upgrades
   W: rccstor upgrades 

 morning             W: VMware updates

switch and test NFS mounts on pcluster

   W: upgrade PGI compiler

reenable queues on zcluster
resume queues on pcluster

enable logins pcluster
enable logins zcluster

email users that outage is over
contact Lab Storage users about their mounts