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May
28
Planned Maintenance in the W06 Data Centre (Pyrmont, NSW)
Posted by Matt Platts on 28 May 2012 06:00 PM

ThinkGrid Limited

Planned Maintenance Notification

Overview - Planned Maintenance

The following advisory was rescheduled from Sunday May 27th and will now take place on Sunday June 3rd. Our Pyrmont, NSW (Australia) data centre will undergo some network hardware upgrades this coming Sunday; this is a low risk operation and should benefit general connectivity to the data centre. This will affect servers and desktops homed in the W06 data centre; no other services will be affected.

Date and Time:

 9:00am-11:00am AEST Sunday June 3rd (12:00am-2:00am BST)

System(s) Affected:

Connectivity at the W06 (Pyrmont, NSW) Data Centre

Scope:

W06 (Pyrmont, NSW) IaaS, HVDI 1.0, HVDI 2.0 desktops

Activity:

Upgrade of network switches and edge routers.

Impact:

At 9:15am AEST there will be a 5 minute internet outage; further there will be a single packet drop around 10:15am. In between, and after these times, all services will function normally.

Risk:
  • Low to moderate risk of overrun
  • Moderate risk of loss of connectivity

Reason / Justification:
  • Improvement of performance, stability and reliability of connectivity to hosts in the W06 data centre.
  • Prevention of loss of service.
Owner:

Data Centre Team

Signed off MWP 2012-05-28


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May
16
Planned Maintenance - W06 (Pyrmont, NSW) Connectivity
Posted by Matt Platts on 16 May 2012 10:04 AM

ThinkGrid Limited

Planned Maintenance Notification

Overview - Planned Maintenance

Date and Time:

 11:00 BST - 12:00 BST May 17th 2012

System(s) Affected:

Connectivity at the W06 (Pyrmont, NSW) Data Centre

Scope:

W06 (Pyrmont, NSW) IaaS, HVDI 1.0, HVDI 2.0 desktops

Activity:

Critical upgrade of Cisco ASA appliance.

Impact:

Some packet loss anticipated to hosts in the W06 data centre.

Risk:
  • Low to moderate risk of overrun
  • Moderate risk of loss of connectivity

Reason / Justification:
  • Improvement of performance, stability and reliability of connectivity to hosts in the W06 data centre.
  • Prevention of loss of service.
Owner:

Level 3 Systems Team

Signed off Matthew Walker Platts 2012-05-16


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May
9
Important Announcements - Using the Service Desk
Posted by Matt Platts on 09 May 2012 12:54 AM

News Subscriptions - Planned Maintenance

As you may have seen from recent news articles, ThinkGrid is adopting a standard format for planned maintenance notifications. Where planned maintenance does not entail specific precautions for certain customers and does not demand a specific or confidential distibution list, we will notify on our Service Desk site, through the News function. You may receive news articles by Subscribing to the ThinkGrid Service Desk, which you can do from the front page using the Subscribe link. I strongly recommend any interested parties take part.

On a secondary note I'm pleased to note that we have introduced a new short article on how to use the ThinkGrid Service Desk website as effectively as possible - this guide is well worth consulting as it outlines some of the many useful features of the site - including reviewing status of tickets, using 'widgets' to accomplish certain tasks quickly and effectively, and rating agent performance in individual tickets to aid in ThinkGrid service improvement. You can find out more here.

~ Matthew W Platts, 2012-05-09


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May
8
Planned Maintenance - ThinkGrid Service Desk Website
Posted by Matt Platts on 08 May 2012 01:11 PM

ThinkGrid Limited

Planned Maintenance Notification

Overview - Planned Maintenance

Date and Time:

 23:00 BST - 23:30 BST May 8th 2012

System(s) Affected:

ThinkGrid Service Desk website

Scope:

The ThinkGrid Service Desk website will be unavailable for up to 30 minutes; during this time telephone and email support will still be available.

Activity:

We will be upgrading PHP on the Service Desk site server and rebuilding the support databases.

Impact:

The Service Desk website will be unresponsive or unavailable during some of this time.

Risk:

Low to moderate risk of overrun

Reason / Justification:

Improvement of performance and reporting capabilities.
Owner:

Matthew Walker Platts

Signed off Matthew Walker Platts 2012-05-08


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May
3
Critical Maintenance - All Servers and Desktops in the Dallas, TX (W07) Data Centre
Posted by Matt Platts on 03 May 2012 10:49 AM

ThinkGrid Limited

Planned Maintenance Notification

Overview - Planned Maintenance

UPDATE: 2012-05-04 11:58:09 UTC

This maintenance completed on time with no anticipated lingering effects. Thank you to all of our valued partners and customers for your patience in this matter. - MWP

Date and Time:

 08:00 BST - 10:00 BST (02:00 CST - 04:00 CST) May 4th 2012

System(s) Affected:

Hosted Virtual Desktop; Infrastructure as a Service

Scope:

HVD Hosted Desktops and VMWare Servers in the Dallas, TX Data Center

Activity:

Softlayer, Inc., will be conducting maintenance on back end connectivity within the Dallas, TX data center. This may affect connectivity between servers and the SAN. In order to protect data integrity and ensure consistency of service we have elected to shut down any potentially affected servers in advance and restore access afterwards.

"Our Network Engineers have identified a hardware issue on a backend customer router, bcr02a.dal05, which provides connectivity for your server(s). To prevent further unplanned outages resulting in significant downtime, engineers will be failing over to bcr02b.dal05, a redundant chassis, during an emergency maintenance window. During this maintenance, customer servers may experience connectivity issues on the private network as the redundant unit takes over. Public connectivity will not be effected by this maintenance."

Impact:

All desktops and servers in the W07 data center will be safely shut down at 02:00 CST and returned to service at 04:00 CST.

Risk:

No risk of data loss. Extremely low risk of overrun.

Reason / Justification:

On May 2nd 2012 we encountered a private network disruption which caused a number of our VMWare servers in the Dallas server farm to become unavailable or unresponsive. Our data centre partner Softlayer investigated and have instigated this maintenance to prevent a reocurrence.
Owner:

Third Party - Softlayer, Inc.

ThinkGrid Level 2 Systems Team

Signed off Matthew Walker Platts 2012-05-03


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