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Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming Mainframe maintenance:Service(s): Mainframe ServicesMaintenance Start Time: Monday, December 9, 2019 5:00am (ET)Maintenance End Time: Monday, December 9, 2019 6:00am (ET)Service Availability: No downtime/performance impact is expectedDetails: This is maintenance of the mainframe Thruput Manager product and will be performed during our regularly scheduled maintenance window. We do not expect this maintenance to affect any of your applications. Questions?We're here to help. If you experience issues after this change has implemented or have any questions, please contact the NWRDC Mainframe Team at (850)645-3505 or NWR-Mainframe@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
Saturday, December 14th
Service(s): NWRDC Tallahassee Network MaintenanceMaintenance Start Time: Saturday, December 14, 2019 0700 (EST)Maintenance End Time: Saturday, December 14, 2019 1000 (EST)Service Availability: No service interruption expected Details: NWRDC staff will be performing network maintenance on Saturday, December 14th to update NWRDC firewalls in Tallahassee. During the maintenance window, we do not expect any network interruption as the firewalls are redundant. We will notify all customers when work has been completed. Questions?We are here to help. If you experience issues after the maintenance has concluded or have any questions, please contact the NWRDC Operations Team at (850) 645-3500, it_support@nwrdc.fsu.edu
Monday, December 16th
Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming Mainframe maintenance:Service(s): Mainframe ServicesMaintenance Start Time: Monday, December 16, 2019 5:00 am (EST)Maintenance End Time: Monday, December 16, 2019 6:00am (EST)Service Availability: No downtime/performance impact is expectedDetails: This is maintenance of the mainframe Syncsort product. NWRDC will upgrade the Syncsort product from version 2.1 to version 3.1. We do not expect this maintenance will affect any of your applications. Questions?We're here to help. If you experience issues after this change has implemented or have any questions, please contact the NWRDC Mainframe Team at (850)645-3505 or NWR-Mainframe@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
Tuesday, December 17th
Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you upcoming BaaS maintenanceService(s): Atlanta Backup and Recovery ServicesMaintenance Start Time: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 0800 (EST)Maintenance End Time: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 1800 (EST)Service Availability: Atlanta BaaS Service InterruptionDetails: On Tuesday, December 17, 2019, the NWRDC Recovery team will be performing an OS upgrade to the Atlanta Data Domain that provides storage to the Atlanta Avamar Grid and Networker server. During the maintenance, this Atlanta Data Domain, the Atlanta Networker server, the Atlanta Avamar grid, Atlanta Avamar Management Console, and Atlanta Reporting Services will be offline, and there will be no backup or recovery activities possible for the Atlanta Avamar or Atlanta Networker during the upgrade. Please note, that this will only affect Avamar and Networker backups in Atlanta. All Data Domain stand-alone services will remain online during this process. We will make our best effort to keep the outage as short as possible, and anticipate that the system will be back online well before nightly backup activity begins. We thank you for your patience as we work to improve Backup and Recovery services at the data center.Questions?We are here to help. If you experience issues after the maintenance has concluded or have any questions, please contact the NWRDC Operations Team at (850)645-3500, it_support@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:Service(s): NWRDC Cloud Infrastructure ServicesMaintenance Start Time: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 0800 (EST)Maintenance End Time: Friday, December 20, 2019 1800 (EST)Service Availability: No downtime nor performance impact is expectedDetails: NWRDC staff will be performing standard virtual center server appliance (VCSA) and host patching in the NWRDC Tallahassee and Atlanta virtual environments.Questions?We're here to help. If you experience issues after the maintenance has concluded or have any questions, please contact the NWRDC Operations Team at (850) 645-3500, it_support@nwrdc.fsu.edu
Wednesday, December 18th
Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you upcoming BaaS maintenanceService(s): Tallahassee Backup and Recovery ServicesMaintenance Start Time: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 1100 (EST)Maintenance End Time: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 1800 (EST)Service Availability: Tallahassee BaaS Service InterruptionDetails: On Wednesday, December 18, 2019, the NWRDC Recovery team will be performing an OS upgrade to the Tallahassee Data Domain that provides storage to the Tallahassee Avamar Grid and Networker server. During the maintenance, this Tallahassee Data Domain, the Tallahassee Networker server, the Tallahassee Avamar grid, Tallahassee Avamar Management Console, and Tallahassee Reporting Services will be offline, and there will be no backup or recovery activities possible for the Tallahassee Avamar or Tallahassee Networker during the upgrade. Please note, that this will only affect Avamar and Networker backups in Tallahassee. All Data Domain stand-alone services will remain online during this process. We will make our best effort to keep the outage as short as possible, and anticipate that the system will be back online well before nightly backup activity begins. We thank you for your patience as we work to improve Backup and Recovery services at the data center.Questions?We are here to help. If you experience issues after the maintenance has concluded or have any questions, please contact the NWRDC Operations Team at (850)645-3500, it_support@nwrdc.fsu.edu.
Saturday, December 21st
Northwest Regional Data Center (NWRDC) would like to inform you of upcoming maintenance:Service(s): NWRDC Atlanta Network MaintenanceMaintenance Start Time: Saturday, December 21, 2019 0700 (EST)Maintenance End Time: Saturday, December 21, 2019 1000 (EST)Service Availability: No service interruption expectedDetails: NWRDC staff will be performing network maintenance on Saturday, December 21st to update NWRDC firewalls in Atlanta. During the maintenance window, we do not expect any network interruption as the Firewalls are redundant. We will notify all customers when work has been completed. Questions?We are here to help. If you experience issues after the maintenance has concluded or have any questions, please contact the NWRDC Operations Team at (850) 645-3500, it_support@nwrdc.fsu.edu
Monday, December 23rd
Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.
Monday, December 30th
Mainframe system time begins at 2:00AM Monday mornings. The system is shutdown to a minimal state to allow for a pristine snapshot of all DASD volumes. Maintenance and upgrades are typically scheduled during this time as well. An IPL is performed before production services are made available by 6:00AM.