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Please note recent changes to the H drive service as of September 13, 2022.

A Home Drive (also known as the H: drive) is a private space where files can be stored to a backed up location with up to 25 GB of storage that is accessible from work or home 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

30 day snapshots are online for users to do a "self-restore". Backups of data are kept for 6 months. Contact the ITS Help Desk if you need assistance with a previous version or a restore.

Access from off campus is available through VPN (UI Anywhere) or Virtual Desktop.

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Services scheduled for maintenance over the next 7 days. Please refer to the calendar view of alerts for a complete schedule.
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Alert History

Start: 
Wednesday, August 31, 2022 - 8:00am
End: 
Friday, September 16, 2022 - 5:00pm
Description

Beginning Tuesday, September 13, 2022, ITS will stop automatic provisioning of Home Drives (H: Drives) for new faculty, staff, and student accounts. To further the modernization of our campus user experience we offer OneDrive for Business as the standard individual file storage solution. The service offers 1 TB of file storage space, document collaboration, sharing, desktop file sync and broad availability with a standard internet connection.

The Home Drive (H: Drive) service will continue to fill some needs on campus, but most new users do not require it. In situations where a Home Drive is required, they can be requested through the ITS Help Desk via an exception process. More information on the Home Drive request process is available at the ITS support site.

Last updated: 
Friday, September 16, 2022 - 5:00pm
Start: 
Saturday, June 13, 2020 - 4:00am
End: 
Saturday, June 13, 2020 - 9:00am
Description

Scheduled Work:  Software upgrade for production and research routers

Data Center(s): Information Technology Facility (ITF)

Expected Impact on Services:  The work should not cause any user-visible disruption

Expected Duration:  4 hours total (4 AM - 8 AM) 

 

Scheduled Work: Upgrade NetApp clusters

Data center(s): Information Technology Facility (ITF) and Lindquist Center (LC)

Expected impact on services: Each volume will experience two brief (10-30 seconds) pauses in IO

Expected Duration: 3 hours total (6 AM - 9 AM) 

Services affected include:

Home (H:) Drives:  .pst files located on these drives are particularly sensitive to drops in connectivity. Instruct users to close all applications (Outlook, Word, Excel) to their Home or H: Drive on Friday before leaving work.

Shared Departmental Drives:  L:, I:, and U: SFTP jobs and instruments connected to these locations are sensitive to drops in connectivity.  Modify as necessary.

RDSS:  Research Data Storage Service is included in this upgrade.

Last updated: 
Saturday, June 13, 2020 - 9:00am
Start: 
Saturday, January 11, 2020 - 6:00am
End: 
Saturday, January 11, 2020 - 8:00am
Description

Scheduled Work: Upgrade NetApp clusters

Data center(s): Information Technology Facility (ITF) and Lindquist Center (LC)

Expected impact on services: Each volume will experience two brief (10-30 seconds) pauses in IO

Expected Duration: 2 hours total (6 AM - 8 AM) 

Services affected include:

Home (H:) Drives:  .pst files located on these drives are particularly sensitive to drops in connectivity. Instruct users to close all applications (Outlook, Word, Excel) to their Home or H: Drive on Friday before leaving work.

Shared Departmental Drives:  L:, I:, and U: SFTP jobs and instruments connected to these locations are sensitive to drops in connectivity.  Modify as necessary.

RDSS:  Research Data Storage Service is included in this upgrade.

Last updated: 
Saturday, January 11, 2020 - 8:00am
Start: 
Saturday, September 14, 2019 - 6:00am
End: 
Saturday, September 14, 2019 - 8:00am
Description

Scheduled Work: Upgrade NetApp clusters

Data center(s): Information Technology Facility (ITF) and Lindquist Center (LC)

Expected impact on services: Each volume will experience two brief (10-30 seconds) pauses in IO

Expected Duration: 2 hours total (6 AM - 8 AM) 

Services affected include:

Home (H:) Drives:  .pst files located on these drives are particularly sensitive to drops in connectivity. Instruct users to close all applications (Outlook, Word, Excel) to their Home or H: Drive on Friday before leaving work.

Shared Departmental Drives:  L:, I:, and U: SFTP jobs and instruments connected to these locations are sensitive to drops in connectivity.  Modify as necessary.

RDSS:  Research Data Storage Service is included in this upgrade.

Last updated: 
Saturday, September 14, 2019 - 8:00am
Start: 
Saturday, July 20, 2019 - 4:00am
End: 
Saturday, July 20, 2019 - 8:00am
Description

Scheduled Work: Upgrade NetApp clusters

Data center(s): Information Technology Facility (ITF) and Lindquist Center (LC)

Expected impact on services: Each volume will experience two brief (10-30 seconds) pauses in IO

Expected Duration: 2 hours total (6 AM - 8 AM) 

Services affected include:

Home (H:) Drives:  .pst files located on these drives are particularly sensitive to drops in connectivity. Instruct users to close all applications (Outlook, Word, Excel) to their Home or H: Drive on Friday before leaving work.

Shared Departmental Drives:  L:, I:, and U: SFTP jobs and instruments connected to these locations are sensitive to drops in connectivity.  Modify as necessary.

RDSS:  Research Data Storage Service is included in this upgrade.

 

Scheduled Work: F5 chassis maintenance

Data center(s): Lindquist Center (LC) and Information Technology Facility (ITF)

Expected impact on services: None

Expected Duration: 4 hours (4 AM - 8 AM)

 

 

Last updated: 
Saturday, July 20, 2019 - 8:00am
Start: 
Saturday, January 12, 2019 - 6:00am
End: 
Saturday, January 12, 2019 - 8:00am
Description

Scheduled work:  Upgrade NetApp clusters

Data center(s):  Information Technology Facility (ITF) and Lindquist Center (LC)

Expected impact on services:  Each volume will experience two brief (10-30 seconds) pauses in IO

Services affected include:

Home (H:) Drives:  .pst files located on these drives are particularly sensitive to drops in connectivity. Instruct users to close all applications (Outlook, Word, Excel) to their Home or H: Drive on Friday before leaving work.

Shared Departmental Drives:  L:, I:, and U: SFTP jobs and instruments connected to these locations are sensitive to drops in connectivity.  Modify as necessary.

RDSS:  Research Data Storage Service is included in this upgrade.

Last updated: 
Saturday, January 12, 2019 - 8:00am
Start: 
Saturday, August 11, 2018 - 6:00am
End: 
Saturday, August 11, 2018 - 8:00am
Description

Scheduled work:  Upgrade NetApp clusters

Data center(s):  Information Technology Facility (ITF) and Lindquist Center (LC)

Expected impact on services:  Each volume will experience two brief (10-30 seconds) pauses in IO

Services affected include:

Home (H:) Drives:  .pst files located on these drives are particularly sensitive to drops in connectivity. Instruct users to close all applications (Outlook, Word, Excel) to their Home or H: Drive on Friday before leaving work.

Shared Departmental Drives:  L:, I:, and U: SFTP jobs and instruments connected to these locations are sensitive to drops in connectivity.  Modify as necessary.

RDSS:  Research Data Storage Service is included in this upgrade.

Last updated: 
Saturday, August 11, 2018 - 8:00am
Start: 
Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 6:00am
End: 
Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 8:00am
Description

Scheduled work:  Upgrade NetApp clusters

Data center(s):  Information Technology Facility (ITF) and Lindquist Center (LC)

Expected Duration:  2 hours (6 AM - 8 AM)

Expected impact on services:  Each volume will experience two brief (10-30 seconds) pauses in IO

Services affected include:

Home (H:) Drives:  .pst files located on these drives are particularly sensitive to drops in connectivity. Instruct users to close all applications (Outlook, Word, Excel) to their Home or H: Drive on Friday before leaving work.

Shared Departmental Drives:  L:, I:, and U: SFTP jobs and instruments connected to these locations are sensitive to drops in connectivity.  Modify as necessary.

RDSS:  Research Data Storage Service is included in this upgrade.

 

Scheduled work:  Software updates and server reboot if needed for itf-rs-store16 and lc-rs-storage02

Data center(s):  Information Technology Facility (ITF) and Lindquist Center (LC)

Expected Duration:  1 hour max (7 AM - 8 AM)

Expected impact on services:  Minimal unless the updates demand reboot.  Compliant LSS Pilot service might be unavailable and users should plan accordingly.  This affects the pilot systems only, Large Scale Storage (LSS) and HPC attached storage will not be affected.

Last updated: 
Saturday, March 10, 2018 - 8:00am
Start: 
Saturday, January 6, 2018 - 6:00am
End: 
Saturday, January 6, 2018 - 8:00am
Description

Scheduled work:  Upgrade NetApp clusters

Data center(s):  Information Technology Facility (ITF) and Lindquist Center (LC)

Expected impact on services:  Each volume will experience two brief (10-30 seconds) pauses in IO

Services affected include:

Home (H:) Drives:  .pst files located on these drives are particularly sensitive to drops in connectivity. Instruct users to close all applications (Outlook, Word, Excel) to their Home or H: Drive on Friday before leaving work.

Shared Departmental Drives:  L:, I:, and U: SFTP jobs and instruments connected to these locations are sensitive to drops in connectivity.  Modify as necessary.

RDSS:  Research Data Storage Service is included in this upgrade.

Last updated: 
Saturday, January 6, 2018 - 8:00am
Start: 
Saturday, October 14, 2017 - 6:00am
End: 
Saturday, October 14, 2017 - 8:00am
Description

Scheduled work:  Upgrade NetApp clusters

Data center(s):  Information Technology Facility (ITF) and Lindquist Center (LC)

Expected impact on services:  Each volume will experience two brief (10-30 seconds) pauses in IO

Services affected include:

Home (H:) Drives:  .pst files located on these drives are particularly sensitive to drops in connectivity. Instruct users to close all applications (Outlook, Word, Excel) to their Home or H: Drive on Friday before leaving work.

Shared Departmental Drives:  L:, I:, and U: SFTP jobs and instruments connected to these locations are sensitive to drops in connectivity.  Modify as necessary.

RDSS:  Research Data Storage Service is included in this upgrade.

Last updated: 
Saturday, October 14, 2017 - 8:00am
Start: 
Saturday, August 12, 2017 - 5:00am
End: 
Saturday, August 12, 2017 - 7:00am
Description

Scheduled work:  Upgrade NetApp clusters

Data center(s):  Information Technology Facility (ITF) and Lindquist Center (LC)

Expected impact on services:  Each volume will experience two brief (10-30 seconds) pauses in IO

Services affected include:

Home (H:) Drives:  .pst files located on these drives are particularly sensitive to drops in connectivity. Instruct users to close all applications (Outlook, Word, Excel) to their Home or H: Drive on Friday before leaving work.

Shared Departmental Drives:  L:, I:, and U: SFTP jobs and instruments connected to these locations are sensitive to drops in connectivity.  Modify as necessary.

RDSS:  Research Data Storage Service is included in this upgrade.

Last updated: 
Saturday, August 12, 2017 - 7:00am