OIT will perform critical maintenance in the University Data Center on Saturday, August 3, 2024, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Sunday, August 4, 2024. During the maintenance window, access to all servers and services will be intermittent. In order to minimize the impact on the campus, the work is scheduled during a low-usage period. Continue reading Network Maintenance and Scheduled Service Outage for August 3rd
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Network Maintenance and Scheduled Service Outage for Summer 2024
OIT will perform the annual maintenance required for the networking infrastructure in the University Data Center. During the maintenance window, access to all servers and services will be intermittent. In order to minimize the impact on the campus, the work is scheduled during a low-usage period on Friday, June 21, 2024, from 9 p.m. to Saturday, June 22, 2024, at 2 a.m. Continue reading Network Maintenance and Scheduled Service Outage for Summer 2024
Network Maintenance and Scheduled Service Outage for Summer 2023
OIT will perform the required maintenance on the networking infrastructure in the University Data Center. There will be three maintenance windows to upgrade the network switches to the most current version. During each maintenance window, access to all servers and services will be intermittent. In order to minimize the impact to campus, the work is scheduled during low usage periods on each of the following dates: Continue reading Network Maintenance and Scheduled Service Outage for Summer 2023
SMU-in-Plano Data Center on the Move
OIT hosts a secondary data center at the University’s SMU-in-Plano campus. This data center houses backups, redundant email services, and servers for the Plano campus. Once the contract for the sale of the Plano campus was signed, it would take a Herculean effort to move to the data center to the new location. David Nguyen, Executive Director of Infrastructure at SMU and the Project Manager for this “SMU Plano to Databank migration” project, was up to the challenge. Continue reading SMU-in-Plano Data Center on the Move
