Information Technology Services

Virtual Computing Lab (VCL) unavailable

Outage category: Applications

Location: All campuses

Status: Open

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

VCL systems unreachable.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

Underlying storage system – NetApp – failed completely.

Resolution

NetApp storage system suffered complete failure, neither controller would boot into the operating system.

VCL functionality restored by switching to a Gluster based file system.

The switch to a new file system was already planned but NetApp failure prompted  the immediate reconfiguration

Prevention

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