Emergency maintenance NetApp Metro Cluster

Emergency maintenance NetApp Metro Cluster

16-05-2015 14:30:44 - 16-05-2015 17:00:51

On the 16th of may, from 14.30 to 17.00 hrs, BIT engineers will be performing maintenance on the NetApp Metro Cluster of BIT. All services and clients that use shared storage use this Metrocluster.

During this maintenance we will be replacing a prefailing part. A failover to the partner node is required to replace the hardware item. Customers running on a redundant iSCSI LUN or NFS share might experience a short (max 180 seconds) outage during the take over by the partner filer. Customers are advised to check if they applied the "best-practices" for using iSCSI/NFS to avoid unnecessary downtime. For more information about these "best-practices" you can contact our Support Department. Customers that have a non-redundant iSCSI LUN or NFS share will have downtime for the duration of the maintainance. This also means the redundancy of our metrocluster will be impacted for the duraction of this replacement, since only one storage node will be available.

Any questions or comments on this post? Please contact our Customer Care Department by email: support@bit.nl or by phone: +31 (0)318 648 688.