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Tuesday, February 9th, 2021

2021-02-09 BisonNet Update

We have continued to work with our storage vendor to improve both the performance and stability of the new BisonNet storage software. We have received a number of fixes from our vendor and feel we have made significant progress over the past month. There are still some remaining issues that we’re working to correct, and we have a new update we’re preparing to install. We plan to install the update on Saturday, Feb. 13th, from 9am-noon. While it’s possible there will be no noticeable disruptions, past experience has shown us that some jobs *may* end up being terminated during the […]

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Monday, January 4th, 2021

2020-01-04 BisonNet Storage Update

We have been working with our storage vendor to improve both the performance and stability of the new BisonNet storage software. While we have made some definite progress on the performance front, we do know that there are currently some stability issues that we’re facing. The vendor is actively troubleshooting them and already has some software fixes in the works to address our issues. You may use the BisonNet environment, but we must caution that it’s possible that jobs may be interrupted at some point due to the stability issues. As always, we recommend copying any resulting data that you generate […]

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Friday, November 13th, 2020

BisonNet Extended Outage (12/14/20 – 12/18/20)

There is some required work that needs to be done on the BisonNet storage due to one of the products we use being end-of-lifed by the vendor. Unfortunately, due to the size of the data that we need to migrate to a new storage solution and the nature of the migration, the outage will be lengthy. It will be done in two phases: The entire BisonNet environment will be unavailable from Monday, December 14 at noon until Friday December 18 at midnight. Any running jobs will be terminated at the beginning of the outage. No jobs will be able to be run during the outage window […]

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