Hi all,

The lab shutdown in RDU is almost here. We are experiencing some strange networking issue — when a VPN client starts a file transfer (e.g., rsync), it causes all of the VPN clients to experience packet loss. I was hoping to get this resolved before granting access to the lab but that is looking increasingly unlikely.

I have a non-VPN data transfer method open and expect to be finished rsync’ing the /home directories from the LRC to the new LRC hopefully before the weekend.

If you currently have data in the RDU Sepia lab that you absolutely must have available between December 15 and early January, reply directly to me with the host(s) and path(s) ASAP.

As a quick status update:

We got one of the new x86 Jenkins builders connected to Jenkins and ran a build
We will be getting the ARM64 builders running over the next couple days
We have a new “teuthology” host communicating back with paddles and nearly have runs running
We have a paddles DB mirror that will become the primary DB when RDU goes dark
We have a new Openshift cluster
We have a new LRC with teuthology and home filesystems

David Galloway

Ceph Engineering Labs – Infrastructure Architect

david.galloway@ibm.com

IBM