CNS staff anticipate that computing systems load will be near or at capacity during the early evening hours of Friday, February 12th, 2010. During this time period, interactive processing in support of release of Freshman Applicant Admission decisions is our top priority. The system will be tuned to favor this type of work.
If you anticipate accessing Student Records in ANY way between approximately 6:00pm - 8:00pm on 2/12/10, we urgently request that you reconsider your plans, and make arrangements to get your information either prior to, or after the 6:00pm - 8:00pm peak load period. Of particular concern are reports/queries which use student data; these reports can often heavily impact the computing resources needed to complete real-time transactional processing.
Beginning at 6:00 pm 2/12/10, the approximately 29,000 students who have applied for admission to UF for the Fall 2010 term will be logging in to see whether or not they have been admitted. This causes an enormous spike in processing load -- a spike which typically lasts about 2 hours.
In order to avoid time-outs and similar "negative experiences" for our applicants, it is necessary that we make 100% of our capacity available exclusively for this purpose, for the 2 hours or so of peak demand.
UF Computing and Networking Services is now offering virtual machine hosting services utilizing proven virtualization technology by VMware. This service is designed to help UF units conserve scarce resources by consolidating computing infrastructure into CNS's enterprise data center. This will allow UF colleges and departments to avoid the burden of purchasing and maintaining computer hardware.
In addition, effective immediately, in order to make the best of use of the available data center capacity, CNS will no longer be accepting new co-located (physical hardware) servers.
Please see DOCWEB News Item N0479, Virtual Machine Hosting Services at CNS for the detailed announcement.
Beginning Tuesday, January 19, 2010, all TN3270 terminal connections to the CNS mainframe from off of the UF campus must be secured. Connections to the host nermvs.cns.ufl.edu from IP addresses that are not on the main UF campus network will need to be secured by using TN3270 SSL or by using the UF VPN service.
Effective Thursday, October 1, 2009, CNS rates for the NSAM data backup service were reduced by approximately 33% percent.
NSAM is our "Network Storage and Archive Management" service and is based on IBM's Tivoli Storage Manager. The popularity of NSAM combined with increased demand resulted in cost savings that we are passing on to our customers. This is the third consecutive year that we have been able to reduce the NSAM rates.
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