Switch as313-2.chi18 OS Upgrade
Posted by Marc Schulz on 12 June 2018 01:28 PM |
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We have scheduled a maintenance to upgrade the OS on this switch to apply bugfixes. Date: Tuesday, June 19th, 2018 Maintenance Scope: as313-2.chi18 Switch Only Customer Impact: Customers on this switch will experience a short 10-15 minute outage while the switch reboots and applies the new OS version. If you have any questions regarding this maintenance please feel free to contact us via our helpdesk or by email at Read Complete article | |
Network Maintenance - 350 E. Cermak Road (Chi01/02)
Posted by Marc Schulz on 25 April 2018 03:43 PM |
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We have scheduled an emergency maintenance to restore a redundant link on an aggregation device that was previously causing performance issues. The optics for this link have been replaced and link stability tested to ensure stability. Date: Friday, April 27th, 2018 Maintenance Scope: chi01/02 Network Resources Customer Impact: Customers may experience a short 30 second loss of connectivity while spanning-tree reconverges. Read Complete article | |
R1Soft Server Backup Upgrade
Posted by Kevin Stange on 14 March 2018 03:11 PM |
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We have scheduled an upgrade of our R1Soft Server Backup (formerly Idera Server Backup or R1Soft CDP) platform software on cdp01.steadfast.net to version 6.6.1. This upgrade fixes a number of bugs. This upgrade is being performed during the daytime, mid-week, because it is the lowest utilization period. Date: Tuesday, March 20th, 2018 Customer Impact: During the maintenance period, Read Complete article | |
Hybrid Performance SAN Maintenance (Chicago, IL) March 11th, 2018
Posted by Marc Schulz on 28 February 2018 03:25 PM |
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We have scheduled a software upgrade of our SAN infrastructure in Chicago, IL. This is purely a backend upgrade and does not change interactions with client environments. Date: Sunday, March 11th, 2018 Maintenance Scope: Hybrid Performance SAN (350 E. Cermak Chicago) Customer Impact: There is no expected impact during this maintenance as our SAN infrastructure is fully redundant. While we don’t expect any issues we recommend taking a Read Complete article | |
Security Advisory: Meltdown and Spectre CPU Defects
Posted by Kevin Stange on 03 January 2018 06:04 PM |
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Note: On May 21st, 2018 an additional vulnerability identified as variant 4, called Speculative Store Bypass, was disclosed as CVE-2018-3639. Mitigations for variant 4 are not discussed in this advisory. We are aware of a new series of issues affecting all modern CPU models which can allow for applications to potentially access information and execute code that should not be allowed. Some reports of these problems began to surface in the media starting around January 1st, but the reports were Read Complete article | |
NetApp SAN & Public Cloud Storage Maintenance
Posted by Kevin Stange on 04 December 2017 01:01 PM |
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We have scheduled maintenance to our NetApp SAN storage platform to replace a faulty controller card. The NetApp SAN is used to power the storage for our Xen Public Cloud and customer accessible SAN services hosted out of chi18. This maintenance does not affect the Datera SAN hosted in chi02. Date: Sunday, December 17th, 2017 Read Complete article | |