Dear PACE Users,
We are reaching out to provide you a status update on PACE’s Archive storage service, and to inform you about the moratorium for new archive storage user creation and allocations that we are instituting effective immediately. This moratorium on new archive storage deployments decreases any potential negative impacts on transfer and backups due to the potential for large influx of new files.
What’s happening and what we are doing: Currently, the original PACE Archive storage is hosted on vendor hardware that is at limited support capacity as the vendor has ceased operations. PACE has initiated a two phase plan to transfer PACE Archive storage from the current hardware to a permanent storage solution. At this time, phase 1 is underway, and archive storage data is being replicated to a temporary storage solution. PACE aims to finish the archive system transfer and configuration of this phase by May Maintenance Period (5/19/2021 – 5/21/2021). The phase 1 is a temporary solution as PACE explores a more cost-efficient solution that will require a second migration of the data to the permanent storage solution, which will be part of the phase 2 of the plan, and we will follow-up with details accordingly.
How does this impact me: There is no service impact to current PACE archive storage users. With the moratorium in effect, new users/allocations requests for archive storage are delayed until after the maintenance period. New requests for archive storage may be processed starting 05/22/2021.
What we will continue to do: PACE team will continue to monitor the transfer of the data to the NetApp storage, and we will report as needed.
Please accept our sincere apology for any inconvenience that this temporary limitation may cause you. If you have any questions or concerns, please direct them to pace-support@oit.gatech.edu
Best,
The PACE Team