July 2021 Maintenance
On Wednesday, July 7, 2021, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to various MSI systems. Primary Storage, Mesabi, and Mangi will be unavailable throughout much of the day.
A global system reservation will start at 5:00 a.m. on July 7. Jobs that cannot be completed before 5:00 a.m. on July 7 will be held until after maintenance and then started once the system returns to production status.
July maintenance will include:
MSI is moving our global scratch filesystem to new hardware. More information on the global scratch hardware transition can be found in the Global Scratch Communication sent to all users on June 30.
MSI's Stratus research cloud will be offline for several hours during maintenance starting at 8 a.m., while we replace networking components. While this maintenance is carried out, Stratus instances (virtual machines) will lose connectivity to their backing storage, and lock until it is restored. While it is not essential, users of Stratus should consider shutting down their Stratus instances before the maintenance work begins.
Systems status is always available on our Status page.
If you have any questions or need assistance, please contact the MSI Help Desk through our online Support Request Form or via email to help@msi.umn.edu.
