CSC News

March 26, 2018

Major Power & Utility Outage Scheduled March 31st

We will be experiencing a power and utility shutdown all day on Saturday, March 31st.  This will affect all of the NC State owned buildings, which include all of the Engineering Buildings and MRC. Venture II & III are NOT on the list of affected buildings. Please inform your students that this event is taking place, so they do not get caught off guard when the lights go off. We strongly suggest turning off office/lab machines that typically stay powered up, in the event of a power spike when electricity is restored. Below is a list of services that will not be available:
  • Lights Card
  • Access Internet Access
  • Heat/ A/C
  • Hot Water

If you have equipment in server rooms EB2 2291, EB2 3267, EB2 3293, and MRC 401 please power off your equipment by Friday March 30th at 4PM. CSC IT staff will be onsite to turn CSC IT managed server equipment back ON. If you like CSC IT staff to turn your server equipment back on, please submit a ticket to csc_help@ncsu.edu including location, server name, and any other instructions.


IMPORTANT:

  • CSC IT will perform firmware updates on storage/virtualization services starting Friday March 30 at 9AM - 12NOON in Ventures III data center. This will affect a significant amount of Senior Design Center services. Since Ventures III & Ventures II are NOT on the list of affected buildings for the power outage, services will be restored soon after the updates are completed; which should be around 12 noon on March 30th.
  • Equipment/services in server room EB2 2214 will be powered off at 2PM on March 30th and will not be powered back up until Sunday Morning April 1st. Affected hosts/services due to this outage include, but not limited to, denali.csc.ncsu.edu, dbgroup.csc.ncsu.edu, print server, compliance.csc.ncsu.edu, davinci.csc.ncsu.edu, several lin-res## (Min Chi's VMware cluster), ezremote.csc.ncsu.edu, researchdb.csc.ncsu.edu, classdb.csc.ncsu.edu.
  • Regarding server rooms EB2 2291, EB2 3267, and EB2 3293: CSC IT will shut off chilled-water cooling units and access switches in these rooms on March 30 ~4PM and will turn them back on Sunday morning April 1st. Again, users with equipment in these rooms must turn off their equipment by March 30th at 4PM. Cooling units and access switches are off-limits (do not touch those).

See below for a Power Point presentation which lists all of the affected buildings: https://facilities.ofa.ncsu.edu/files/2018/01/Centennial-Campus-Outage-Town-Hall.pdf.

For any questions, please contact us at csc_help@ncsu.edu


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