Next pool
The grid has been brought back online. Like at the previous run, this is provisionally. We still have a pool of assets being disabled at the moment. This pool needs to be scrubbed, stored, verified, and its result merged with the current existing asset pool. This line of text takes quite a bit longer to…
Back to Maintenance
Unfortunately last night the incremental restore borked, pushing the cluster into an unusable state. It started actively refusing any new connections and to prevent damages the grid has been again taken offline and put into maintenance mode. The backend team will need more time to fine tune the process to strip free space out of…
Online Provisionally
Osgrid is back online provisionally. It’s possible that certain assets may become unavailable for a while when the conversion process runs across them. You are able to use the grid and build, new assets will not be affected. Due to the back end team doing their database-voodoo the cluster now has enough “breathing space” to…
Assets and Daemons
We’re currently in Maintenance mode on OSgrid. This means the grid is offline. Long technical story short, our storage cluster was seemingly running out of space. Our cluster uses ceph. This is the object storage daemon for the Ceph distributed file system. It manages data on local storage with redundancy and provides access to that…
OSgrid status update
Past few months the OSG team has been working on a variety of things. So we figured to give you a small update on the grid status. For all users, and our volunteer admin teams convenience, a support ticket system has been implemented. As currently most of the “offline” request came in randomly via a…
Vivox Outage resolved
Despite us fearing the free voice service to already have disappeared, Vivox had an outage and seems to be back online. The server that is used for open simulator voice seems to be available again. This does however change nothing about their earlier communications regarding their intentions with this service. We still expect the service…