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 Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 1084 Credit: 9,251,563 RAC: 6,500  |
I've just been informed that an important virtual machine (VM) is being moved to new hardware tomorrow night, starting at 1800, 01/04/2015. This is likely to affect our ability to provide jobs, but I'm not sure of the exact impact. The process is scheduled to take ~8 hours. Please take any mitigating actions you think reasonable. On a not-so-related matter, my University position is being terminated today due to lack of funding. As per protocol, this means I will lose all my University IT access from tonight! I have secured a position as a Visiting Fellow for 11 months, but again as per protocol, I won't be granted IT access immediately. We're hopeful that I will get back most if not all my capabilities without much delay, but I'm not holding my breath. I have a similar problem with CERN IT, but they don't take such a draconian stance so there's a grace period during which I should be able to recover my facilities there.  |
 Ben SegalSend message Joined: 1 Sep 04 Posts: 141 Credit: 2,579 RAC: 0 |
Very sorry to hear your news about your university position and their incredible agility in cancelling IT accounts. All the very best, Ben |
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Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 1084 Credit: 9,251,563 RAC: 6,500 |
Very sorry to hear your news about your university position and their incredible agility in cancelling IT accounts. Thanks, Ben. I did manage to get most of my accesses back again already so they weren't as scary as they pretended to be. I still have the problem of moving all my private emails away from the corporate Webmail though. |
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Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 1084 Credit: 9,251,563 RAC: 6,500 |
I've just been informed that an important virtual machine (VM) is being moved to new hardware tomorrow night, starting at 1800, 01/04/2015. This is likely to affect our ability to provide jobs, but I'm not sure of the exact impact. The process is scheduled to take ~8 hours. Please take any mitigating actions you think reasonable.Yes, we are draining the job queues as new jobs dry up. Hopefully their time estimate will prove reasonably accurate. |
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Send message Joined: 29 Aug 05 Posts: 1084 Credit: 9,251,563 RAC: 6,500 |
It took them longer than anticipated, but we have jobs available again. |
Magic Quantum Mechanic Send message Joined: 24 Oct 04 Posts: 1199 Credit: 67,714,401 RAC: 94,126 
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Thanks for the update Ivan |
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