EWS Linux Home Directory Server Migration - CONFIRMED for late this evening, October 25

All Linux clients (workstations and remote access) will be taken offline from midnight tonight until 8am tomorrow morning (Saturday, October 26).  During this time we will complete the migration of user home directories to new NFS file servers.  All Linux labs will close at their regular times tonight (9pm for most) and will re-open at 10am tomorrow.  The Linux remote access servers will be available again sometime between 8am and 10am tomorrow morning.

We will most likely not be able to get the non-home directories (e.g. class shares) migrated during this outage.  We will be closely monitoring the performance of those shares on the old server while we work to migrate them as well.  We will also be monitoring the performance of the new servers as there are some parameters that we may need to tweak after we see how they are performing in production. These changes could require some short outages due to reboots to implement the adjustments.

Note that at this time we are only migrating the files of students have who accessed the Linux systems at some point this semester.  The home directories for all users from the old server will still be available on the clients but read-only under the path /ewshomeold/X/NetID where X is the first letter of the NetID.