{"id":489,"date":"2017-01-27T10:32:13","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T10:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/?p=489"},"modified":"2017-01-30T10:06:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T10:06:05","slug":"balena-maintenance-thursday-2nd-february","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/2017\/01\/27\/balena-maintenance-thursday-2nd-february\/","title":{"rendered":"Balena maintenance - 2nd February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During Inter-Semester break, on Thursday 2 February between 09:00 and 13:00, we will be placing the cluster into maintenance mode whilst we perform failover tests between the pair of master nodes and BeeGFS node couplets.<\/p>\n<p>These tests will ensure that pairs of master nodes and BeeGFS node couplets are in good working order should an unexpected system issue occur that triggers a system failover.<\/p>\n<p>While the system failovers are being tested, all users will be able to access data from \/home and \/beegfs, but you may notice a momentary freeze while the storage areas are transferred between the failover pairs. All compute nodes will be placed into a scheduler reservation to prevent any workloads from running while these tests are carried out.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry for the short notice of this announcement, I hope this will not cause too much disruption for anyone.<\/p>\n<p>Team HPC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During Inter-Semester break, on Thursday 2 February between 09:00 and 13:00, we will be placing the cluster into maintenance mode whilst we perform failover tests between the pair of master nodes and BeeGFS node couplets. These tests will ensure that...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[57,132,210,13],"class_list":["post-489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hpc","tag-balena","tag-beegfs","tag-failover","tag-hpc"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/it-status\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}