The first 5 TB of storage is available at no cost to researchers with faculty appointments and their labs. RDSS is useful for backups, archiving, and storing research data files.
Benefits Include:
- CIFS/SMB and NFS shares are available
- Auditing can be turned on for CIFS/SMB, which allows for Level III data to be stored
- Snapshots help recover a deleted file (or a different version of a file) within 30 days
- Replication copies files to a remote site every four hours for disaster recovery
- 5 TB folder with appropriate access rights free of charge
- Additional space available for a fee
Cost:
The first 5 TB are free. Additional space is $270 per TB per year or $22.50 per TB per month.
How to Subscribe:
To subscribe to this service, complete the RDSS Request Form.
General Support Information
Current Status
Maintenance
Past 90 Days
Alert History
This issue is resolved. Please contact the ITS Help Desk if you experience any further issues.
RDSS users are experiencing issues when saving data. ITS staff are working on the problem.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Research Data Storage Service (RDSS) cluster is experiencing intermittent issues.