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tomp
10-03-2006, 12:18 AM
SW-Soft, the makers of Virtuozzo have released some critical updates to the Virtuozzo software. We will be applying the updates which require rebooting the servers over the course of the next couple evenings starting at 11pm EDT.

Total downtime for each server is expected to be less than 30 minutes.

I apologize for the late notice but as I say above some of these are critical (security) related updates that need to be applied soonest.

Thanks for your patience.

Tom
Jeff
10-03-2006, 12:30 AM
VPS3 is currently being rebooted. We will update this thread when it is back online and all VDS servers are up. Thanks.
Jeff
10-03-2006, 12:39 AM
VPS3 has been rebooted and all VDS servers on the node are up.
Jeff
10-03-2006, 01:06 AM
VPS1 is being rebooted now.
Jeff
10-03-2006, 01:14 AM
VPS1 is up as are all the VDS servers on the node.
Jeff
10-03-2006, 01:21 AM
VPS1 is being rebooted one more time for the new kernel. Will update you shortly.
Jeff
10-03-2006, 01:29 AM
VPS1 is now up.
Jeff
10-03-2006, 01:43 AM
VPS2 is now being rebooted.
Jeff
10-03-2006, 01:55 AM
VPS2 is good to go.
Jeff
10-03-2006, 02:03 AM
VPS5 is now being rebooted.
Jeff
10-03-2006, 02:08 AM
VPS5 is done.

That's it for tonight folks.
Jeff
10-04-2006, 12:00 AM
VPS4 is currently being rebooted.
Jeff
10-04-2006, 12:24 AM
Due to our lengthy uptimes (230 days for VPS4), the server is currently running a forced "fsck" (file system check) of the /vz partition. Once that's complete, the server will be rebooted once more and I will post when everything is back up. This is going to take some time and is a necessary task for the server.

Just a side note: the security notification from SWSoft came in last night to us via email, not long before we began the updates. We take these types of issues very seriously for the protection of our servers and our customers, hence the short notice. Your patience is appeciated while VPS4 continues to fsck, thanks.
Jeff
10-04-2006, 01:10 AM
Just a quick update - the fsck is still running, and is still going to take a bit to complete. Long uptimes + big servers = fs checks that take a little while to run. We do apologize for any inconvenience and will update again as necessary. Thank you all for your patience.
Jeff
10-04-2006, 01:16 AM
VPS6 is now being rebooted.
Jeff
10-04-2006, 01:27 AM
VPS6 is up.
tomp
10-04-2006, 01:32 AM
Due to our lengthy uptimes (230 days for VPS4), the server is currently running a forced "fsck" (file system check) of the /vz partition. Once that's complete, the server will be rebooted once more and I will post when everything is back up. This is going to take some time and is a necessary task for the server.

Just a side note: the security notification from SWSoft came in last night to us via email, not long before we began the updates. We take these types of issues very seriously for the protection of our servers and our customers, hence the short notice. Your patience is appeciated while VPS4 continues to fsck, thanks.

Hi - I realize this maintenance is taking much longer than the 30 minutes we anticipiated however, every other server took 7 - 9 minutes total. This server has large (300GB) SCSI drives and its taking a while to fsck the entire file system.

Currently we are ~60% complete and expect to have the server back online prior to 1am EDT.

Thanks for your continued patience.

Tom
Jeff
10-04-2006, 01:45 AM
Sorry folks, VPS6 is being rebooted once more, as the smp kernel was loaded (which only supports up to around 3GB of physical mem), and not the enterprise kernel (which supports the full 8GB). If you noticed things running a little slower after the prior reboot, this is why. If you didn't, then those SAS drives were well worth the money :) Will update you shortly.
Jeff
10-04-2006, 01:56 AM
VPS6 is now online.
Jeff
10-04-2006, 02:00 AM
fsck is done on VPS4 and is rebooting now.
tomp
10-04-2006, 02:02 AM
vps4 vps's are booting now; about 1/2 of them are already online.
tomp
10-04-2006, 02:05 AM
4 VPS's left to start
tomp
10-04-2006, 02:06 AM
3 VPS's left to start.
tomp
10-04-2006, 02:06 AM
2 VPS's left to start
tomp
10-04-2006, 02:07 AM
1 VPS left to start
tomp
10-04-2006, 02:08 AM
ALL VPS's on VPS4 are now online!

Thanks again for your patience.

Tom
cImrie
10-04-2006, 07:58 AM
Do SwSoft release updates like this that often, just curious what uptime level i'd have.

The downtime isn't a problem, but am curious on what scale updates that require a reboot come out on.
Jeff
10-04-2006, 10:42 AM
These types of updates are not released very often, no. If you look back over all the threads from day 1 in this section of the forum, you will see when each server has been rebooted, including shared hosting servers. It doesn't happen very often. 99% of the time reboots are done for critical upgrades.
sliqua
10-05-2006, 09:50 AM
These types of updates are not released very often, no. If you look back over all the threads from day 1 in this section of the forum, you will see when each server has been rebooted, including shared hosting servers. It doesn't happen very often. 99% of the time reboots are done for critical upgrades.

VPS4 had a 230 day uptime, and the previous uptime was 205. I'd assume that most of the others are the same =]