Planned Downtimes

Planned Downtimes

Introduction

Maintenance and critical patches require from time to time a restart of (some) services that result in unavailability of those services). This article keeps track of the planned downtimes.

2022-03-23

Why
  1. Fix a bug regarding workspace creation
Expected actual downtime
  1. < 10 minutes
From (CET)Till (CET)Affected ServiceNon-affected servicesStatus
17:0017:15
  1. Budget creation
  2. VM creation
  3. Provisioning of Workspaces 
  1. Existing connections to VMs
PLANNED

2022-03-22

Why
  1. Fix a bug regarding VM creation when shared tenant-specific features not found
  2. Improved error handling when auto-shutdown schedules or budgets are not found
Expected actual downtime
  1. < 10 minutes
From (CET)Till (CET)Affected ServiceNon-affected servicesStatus
17:0017:15
  1. Budget creation
  2. VM creation
  3. Provisioning of Workspaces 
  1. Existing connections to VMs
PLANNED

2022-03-18

Why
  1. Removal of ASE resources and switch to App Service plan
Expected actual downtime
  1. < 10 minutes
From (CET)Till (CET)Affected ServiceNon-affected servicesStatus
18:0018:15
  1. Exisiting data requests
  2. Login to the portal
  1. Existing connections to VMs
PLANNED

2022-02-10

Why
  1. Fix a bug regarding Microsoft Azure subscriptions.
Expected actual downtime
  1. < 10 minutes
From (CET)Till (CET)Affected ServiceNon-affected servicesStatus
17:0017:15
  1. Budget creation
  2. File upload
  3. Adding new users to a workspace
  4. Provisioning of Workspaces 
  1. Existing connections to VMs
PLANNED

2022-02-09

Why
  1. Fix a bug regarding creating VMs from templates
Expected actual downtime
  1. < 10 minutes
From (CET)Till (CET)Affected ServiceNon-affected servicesStatus
17:0017:15
  1. myDRE.org availability
  2. Ability to login
  3. All VM related actions on myDRE.org
  4. Provisioning of Workspaces 
  1. Existing connections to VMs
PLANNED

2022-01-07

Why
  1. Fix a bug regarding creating templates (generalizing VMs)
Expected actual downtime
  1. < 10 minutes
From (CET)Till (CET)Affected ServiceNon-affected servicesStatus
03:3003:50
  1. myDRE.org availability
  2. Ability to login
  3. All VM related actions on myDRE.org
  4. Provisioning of Workspaces 
  1. Existing connections to VMs
PLANNED

2021-12-21

Why
  1. Making Spot VMs self-service available, read more: Spot Virtual Machines
  2. Release notes
Expected actual downtime
  1. < 5 minutes
From (CET)
Till (CET)
Affected Service
Non-affected services
Status
17:00
17:20
  1. myDRE.org availability
  2. Ability to login
  3. All VM related actions on myDRE.org
  4. Provisioning of Workspaces 
  1. Existing connections to VMs
PLANNED




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