NESE - Notice history

MGHPCC will conduct its annual facility power shutdown from Monday, June 15th, through Wednesday, June 17th. During this time, the NESE storage service, including NESE Tape and NESE Disk Globus endpoints, will be unavailable. We will begin with the power-off procedures on Monday, June 15th, in the afternoon and start restoring access to services on Thursday, June 18th, early in the morning. Please refer to the following timeline for details on the expected downtime of the NESE services:

Please reference the timeline below for details: 

NESE services will go offline on Monday, June 15th at: : 

• 3:00 pm: Globus Tape and Disk endpoints; MinIO

• 3:00 pm: dCache DTNs; xRootD DTNs

• 4:00 pm: Disk services, Ceph RBD and dCache Storage Cluster

Access to NESE services will be resumed on Thursday, June 18th at:  

• 9:00 am: The Disk services, Ceph RBD and dCache Storage Cluster

• 2:00 pm: dCache DTNs; xRootD DTNs

• 2:00 pm: Globus Tape and Disk endpoints; MinIO

Nese Tape should be fully operational, including data retrieval, by 6:00 pm

Action Items for NESE Services Clients:

• Unmount and detach RBD storage by 4:00 pm on Monday, June 15th

• Stop Ceph RGW nodes by 4:00 pm on Monday, June 15th

Reminders for Monitoring:

• Monitor the MGHPCC Slack #nese channel for status updates and announcements

• Visit https://nese.instatus.com/ for real-time updates on progress

• Subscribe at https://nese.instatus.com/subscribe/email for updates and announcements

• Tape and Disk Globus transfers should resume after the NESE Globus endpoint comes back online