UPDATE: All works completed successfully

Due to infrastructure maintenance and upgrades, the ~okeanos service will be disrupted between 09:00 and 12:00 EET on Wednesday, December 23.

Any running Cyclades VMs will be temporarily shut down during maintenance and automatically restarted afterwards.
The Cyclades and Pithos Web UI and APIs will also be inaccessible in the above timeframe.

The upgrades are necessary to improve our services.

The ~okeanos team

A major upgrade has been made available in the software running our VM infrastructure.

The new version has many performance and security enhancements.
You must restart, using our API or the UI, your VM(s) in order to start using the new version.

IMPORTANT : This Friday (22/May/2015) we will restart all VMs that will be using the old version of the virtualization software.

The upgrade involves the Qemu-kvm package (from version 2.0.0+dfsg-4 to 2.1+dfsg-12)

The list of changes are:

• http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/q/qemu/qemu_2.1+dfsg-12~bpo70+1_changelog
• http://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/2.1

The ~okeanos team

Hi ~okeanos users,

As some of you might have heard, a new glibc vulnerability has been found. It has been named GHOST (CVE 2015-0235) and affects most Linux systems. You can find a detailed description of this vulnerability here. From the ~okeanos images that we provide at this moment, the affected ones are the following:

• (K)Ubuntu, prior to version 14.04
• Debian, all versions
• CentOS, all versions
• Oracle Linux, all versions

On our part, we have updated our own systems, but you are strongly advised to update your VMs too [1]. ... read more

Hello everybody,

Hopefully everyone is merry and bright and whatnot. If you still have room in your Christmas socks, then get ready for this present; the 0.16 version of Synnefo has just been released. Let's see which are the new features that you may get excited about:

Pool projects: Projects have been upgraded to a new unified "pool project" type in Synnefo 0.16. Resources get assigned to projects, and project members  may reserve resources from individual projects for their own use. Users may choose a project where a new resource can be charged (e.g., a ... read more

UPDATE: Upgrade works completed successfully

Due to extended power upgrade works in our datacenter, the ~okeanos service will be disrupted between 07:00 EET and 23:30 EET on Saturday, December 13. The running Cyclades VMs will be temporary shut down during the planned maintenance, and they will be automatically restarted when works end. The planned works are not expected to affect Pithos+.

Note that if you have long running jobs or services you should ensure that they are at a stable state before the upgrade. To do that you can shut them down pro-actively before 07:00 EET, Saturday, December 13.

The ... read more