The Research Data Storage Service (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
Cost:
Storage space is available for $270 per TB per year.
For researchers with a faculty appointment, a single 5TB share with backups is available upon request at no cost on either RDSS or the Large Scale Storage Service (LSS). Additional space may be purchased at the standard rate.
How to Subscribe:
To subscribe to this service, complete the RDSS Request Form.
Frequently Asked Questions
Current Status
Maintenance
Past 90 Days
Alert History
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: 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)
While this is an ongoing issue, it is stable for now.
RDSS users with mapped drives may see a lower than normal amount of free space available. ITS is monitoring the situation.
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.
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.