FAS Research Computing - VM and Ceph infrastructure issues - also affects FASRC ticket system – Incident details

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VM and Ceph infrastructure issues - also affects FASRC ticket system

Resolved
Operational
Started about 2 years agoLasted about 2 hours

Affected

VDI/OpenOnDemand

Operational from 3:00 PM to 4:55 PM

Cannon Open OnDemand/VDI

Operational from 3:00 PM to 4:55 PM

Storage

Operational from 3:00 PM to 4:55 PM

CEPH Storage Boston (Tier 2)

Operational from 3:00 PM to 4:55 PM

Virtual Machines

Operational from 3:00 PM to 4:55 PM

Virtual Infrastructure - Boston

Operational from 3:00 PM to 4:55 PM

Updates
  • Update
    Update

    The Ceph/VM cluster issues have subsided and performance should be back to normal.

  • Resolved
    Resolved

    The virtual infrastructure is responding normally again.
    This is a known issue that we are working to eliminate, but which requires new infrastructure (and time and resources). Thanks for your patience.

  • Identified
    Identified

    An issue with our virtual infrastructure is affecting virtual machines and services which rely on that including Ceph storage, VDI, the FASRC ticket system, and hosted virtual machines.

    Updates will be posted here.