Upcoming NERC system maintenance and upgrade [August 12, 2025 from 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM]
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Events

Upcoming NERC's ColdFront service upgrade and maintenance May 14, 2024 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM

Upcoming NERC's ColdFront upgrade and maintenance will occur on Tuesday May 14, 2024 from 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We are upgrading and updating NERC's ColdFront deployment. - This will allow users to request minimal Swift Object Storage during the decommission process. NOTICES - This upgrade will cause some outages to the […]

MGHPCC (Holyoke) Annual Power Shutdown [May 22, 2024 8:00 AM ET - May 28, 2024 8:00 PM ET]

Upcoming MGHPCC (Holyoke) Annual Power Shutdown (multi-day) Due to the annual MGHPCC (Holyoke data center) and other maintenance activities, New England Research Cloud (NERC) services will be unavailable from Wednesday, May 22nd, 8 AM until Tuesday, May 28th, 8 PM. While the timing is not ideal due to the long Memorial Day weekend, it is […]

NERC OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) and ColdFront service maintenance and upgrade [Monday August 5, 2024 9 AM - 5 PM]

Upcoming NERC OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) and ColdFront service maintenance and upgrade will occur on Monday August 5, 2024 from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We plan to perform maintenance and a version upgrade on the NERC OpenShift deployment. This maintenance will involve a rolling reboot of all hosts in the cluster. […]

NERC OpenStack, ColdFront service, and OpenShift Account Manager Maintenance Scheduled for [Tuesday September 3, 2024 9AM - 5PM]

Upcoming NERC OpenStack Platform, ColdFront service and OpenShift Account Manager maintenance will occur on Tuesday September 3, 2024 from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We are planning to migrate a set of GPU hypervisors (V100) from the NERC OpenStack cluster to the NERC OpenShift cluster. We will also be upgrading both the […]

Upgrade NERC OpenStack Platform to version 17.1 [Dec 12, 2024 8:00 AM ET - Dec 14, 2024 8:00 PM ET] (multi-day)

Upcoming NERC OpenStack Platform upgrade to version 17.1 will occur from Thursday December 12th, 2024 from 8:00 AM until Saturday, December 14th, 8:00 PM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We are planning to upgrade our NERC OpenStack Platform to version 17.1. This upgrade will provide enhanced features, performance improvements, and additional security & compliance measures to support […]

Upcoming NERC Network Equipment and Switch Maintenance Scheduled for [Tuesday January 14, 2025 9 AM - Wednesday January 15, 2025 9 AM]

Upcoming NERC Network Equipment and Switch Maintenance is scheduled from Tuesday, January 14, 2025, at 9:00 AM to Wednesday, January 15, 2025, at 9:00 AM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We plan to perform changes to the management and configuration of our network infrastructure. This will take the majority of the maintenance period. These updates are part […]

Upcoming NERC system maintenance and upgrade - OpenStack and ColdFront - Tuesday February 11, 2025 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

Upcoming NERC system maintenance and upgrade will occur on Tuesday February 11, 2025 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We will be upgrading our ColdFront deployment. Additionally, we will be performing maintenance on the NERC OpenStack RadosGW (Swift/S3) object storage service. - Other than OpenStack projects which use Swift/S3 this maintenance should not […]

Upcoming NERC system maintenance and upgrade - Tuesday, May 13, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Upcoming NERC system maintenance and upgrade - Tuesday, May 13, 2025 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE - We will resolve issues related to Shelving VMs to save on resource costs when they are not in use. - We will conduct maintenance on the NERC OpenStack RadosGW (Swift/S3) object storage service. - Additionally, we will deploy […]

MGHPCC (Holyoke) Annual Power Shutdown [June 2, 2025 3:00 PM ET - June 4, 2025 5:00 PM ET]

Upcoming MGHPCC (Holyoke) Annual Power Shutdown (multi-day) Due to the annual MGHPCC (Holyoke data center) power maintenance as well as other maintenance activities, the New England Research Cloud (NERC) services will be unavailable from Monday, June 2nd, 3 PM until Wednesday, June 4th, 5 PM. NERC services that will be impacted include: NERC's OpenStack NERC's […]

Red Hat's OpenShift Cluster Platform (OCP) upgrade on NERC from version 4.15 to 4.17

Upcoming Red Hat's OpenShift container platform (OCP) upgrade on NERC from version 4.15 to 4.17 will occur on Tuesday, June 10, 2025, from 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM. GENERAL MAINTENANCE We are writing to inform you that we plan to upgrade our OpenShift cluster from version 4.15 to 4.17 on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. As […]