OSUOSL scheduled upgrades (ppc64le) 22-24 September 2026
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 1/5
- Estimated time
- Under an hour
- Newbie friendliness
- 65/100
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Activity status
- Active
- Domain
- infrastructure
Research direction
This is a notification of scheduled maintenance for OSUOSL ppc64le infrastructure. The issue is informational; no action is required from a contributor. To understand the context, look at the Node.js build infrastructure documentation or previous similar issues. The work is simply to acknowledge the notification and ensure the team is aware of the upcoming downtime.
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Description
Received three separate emails from OSUOSL:
Scheduled Host Upgrade - Tue, September 22, 2026
We are writing to inform you of scheduled maintenance that will affect your virtual machine(s) on hypervisor node openpower11.osuosl.bak.
We are upgrading the operating system on this hardware. Because these virtual machines use storage local to the host, they cannot be moved elsewhere while the work is carried out. They will be shut down before the upgrade begins and started again once the host has been upgraded and verified.
Scheduled Date: Tue, September 22, 2026
Maintenance Window: 9am - 12:00PM PSTThe following virtual machines are affected:
...
Node.js:
- release-osuosl-rhel8-ppc64_le-2 (ACTIVE)
- test-osuosl-rhel8-ppc64_le-4 (ACTIVE)
- test-osuosl-rhel8-ppc64_le-5 (ACTIVE)
- test-osuosl-rhel9-ppc64_le-1 (ACTIVE)
- test-osuosl-rhel9-ppc64_le-2 (ACTIVE)
...
Scheduled Host Upgrade - Wed, September 23, 2026
We are writing to inform you of scheduled maintenance that will affect your virtual machine(s) on hypervisor node openpower13.osuosl.bak.
We are upgrading the operating system on this hardware. Because these virtual machines use storage local to the host, they cannot be moved elsewhere while the work is carried out. They will be shut down before the upgrade begins and started again once the host has been upgraded and verified.
Scheduled Date: Wed, September 23, 2026
Maintenance Window: 9:30AM - 1:30PM PSTThe following virtual machines are affected:
...
Node.js:
- test-osuosl-rhel10-ppc64_le-2 (ACTIVE)
...
Scheduled Host Upgrade - Thu, September 24, 2026
We are writing to inform you of scheduled maintenance that will affect your virtual machine(s) on hypervisor node openpower14.osuosl.bak.
We are upgrading the operating system on this hardware. Because these virtual machines use storage local to the host, they cannot be moved elsewhere while the work is carried out. They will be shut down before the upgrade begins and started again once the host has been upgraded and verified.
Scheduled Date: Thu, September 24, 2026
Maintenance Window: 2:00PM - 5:00PM PSTThe following virtual machines are affected:
...
Node.js:
- test-osuosl-rhel10-ppc64_le-1 (ACTIVE)
...
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