Operations Report 12/04/2010

Summary of Previous Week

• Testing CASTOR 2.1.9 Upgrade Procedures
• Oracle Consultancy for CASTOR Architecture
• Upgrade OS kernel on ATLAS 3D databases nodes

Operational Issues and Incidents

• During OS kernel upgrade on ATLAS 3D we lost an ASM disk from both 3D databases ATLAS and LHCb.
• Somnus (LFC/FTS) database went down for FTS data corruption. Investigation on going with Oracle Support.

Plans for Week(s) Ahead

• Continue Testing CASTOR 2.1.9 Upgrade
• Develop CASTOR Upgrade Fallback Plan
• Test Hammerora freeware application to test load Oracle databases

Downtimes and At Risk

None

Development Priorities

• Migrate ATLAS TAGs to 64bit systems
• Investigate ORACLE replication technique for LFC/FTS resilience
• Investigate hardware architecture, backup and recovery strategy, resilience and validation of restored backup.

Requirements and Blocking Issues

None

OnCall

• Carmine/Keir

Absences

Carmine - Friday