Announcements
update DELTA's load balancer
Date Posted: 10.6.23
On Monday, October 9th, DELTA staff will be updating the load balancers to the latest tested release. Due to the redundant nature of the system no impact to users is expected.
Moodle plugin updates
Date Posted: 10.6.23
On Monday, October 9th, between 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm DELTA staff will be performing updates to a number of Moodle plugins and will be installing the grademe block. There will be a brief (<10 minute) interruption of each of the Moodle servers (Courses, Projects, and Outreach) during this window.
Migration of WolfWare to new NAS storage
Date Posted: 10.6.23
On Monday, October 9th, between 6:00 am and 10:00 am, DELTA staff will be migrating the backing NFS shares for WolfWare and some internal DELTA services such as those hosted on apps.delta.ncsu.edu to new storage. Initial data syncs will be completed ahead of time and this maintenance window will be used to temporarily take the services offline, perform a final sync, re-configure client side mounts, then bring the services back online. We estimate a downtime of up to 1-2 hours while this work is performed.
Lighten Your Pack for Fall Break
Wellness Day is coming up!
Date Posted: 9.12.23
This semester’s wellness day takes place in one week on Tuesday, Sept. 19. Mark your calendars and find ways to relax and recharge: go.ncsu.edu/wellnessday
Reboot primary DELTA firewall
Date Posted: 9.7.23
On Saturday, September 9th, between 6:30 am and 8:30 am DELTA staff will be rebooting our primary firewall device. As this is a redundant environment and only one device needs to be rebooted, we do not expect any interruptions to DELTA services.
Wellness Resources for a New Semester
Date Posted: 8.28.23
Welcome to a new semester, Wolfpack. Throughout the year NC State offers dozens of wellness resources and opportunities for connection. Explore a new way to lighten your pack today at https://wellness.ncsu.edu
Minor Moodle Updates
Date Posted: 8.23.23
On Saturday, August 26th, between 7:00am and 9:00am, DELTA staff will be applying an update to the Moodle service. This update will be applied to Courses, Projects, and Outreach servers, and will cause a brief (<5 minute) outage while the update is being applied. We do not anticipate any extended interruption to the service.
Minor updates to Moodle plugins
Date Posted: 8.2.23
On Tuesday, August 8th, between 1:00 pm and 4:00 pm, DELTA staff will be performing maintenance on the Moodle service, including Courses, Projects, and Outreach. There will be minor updates applied for a number of Moodle plugins on all servers, and the WooClap plugin will be added to the Courses server. There will be a brief (<5 minute) interruption to each Moodle service when they are restarted as part of the update process.
Migrating Moodle Courses 2324 files
Date Posted: 8.2.23
On Tuesday, August 8th, between 9:00 am and 12:00 pm, DELTA staff will be performing maintenance on the current Moodle Courses server (Courses 2324). We will be migrating the Moodle Courses 2324 file share to new NAS (Network Attached Storage) platform. There will be on outage of Moodle Courses 2324 only during this time. This work will not affect the Projects or Outreach services or older Moodle archives.
DELTA load balancer updates
Date Posted: 8.2.23
On Tuesday, August 8th, between 7:00 am and 9:00 am, DELTA staff will be updating the load balancers to the latest build. Due to the redundant nature of the system, we do not anticipate any interruption of service during this work.
DELTA infrastructure power switch
Date Posted: 8.2.23
On Monday, August 7th, between 8:00 am and 5:00 pm, DELTA systems staff will be performing power work on the DELTA back end systems. Due to this work, Moodle, WolfWare, WolfWare WordPress, and other DELTA-run services will be offline for an extended period.
Migrate Moodle projects/outreach file storage
Date Posted: 7.25.23
On Saturday Morning, 7/29/23 we will be performing a backend migration of the file shares supporting the Moodle Projects and Moodle Outreach instances. Both Moodle Projects and Moodle Outreach will be offline while this process completes. Downtime of up to two hours for each instance is possible. There are no user facing changes with this migration. This migration is part of decommissioning an older file storage platform that will soon go out of support.
Note: No Moodle Courses instances will be impacted during this maintenance. We will schedule a later maintenance windows for these.
WolfWare Website Updates
WolfWare Website Updates
Date Posted: 6.28.23
On Friday, June 30th, between 4:45pm and 5:00pm, DELTA staff will be performing updates to the WolfWare website. No interruptions to the site are expected during this work.
Moodle upgrade
Date Posted: 6.28.23
On Saturday, July 1st, between 7:00am and 10:00am, DELTA staff will be performing updates to Moodle. There will be a short (<5 minute) interruption to each Moodle service (Course, Outreach, and Projects).
Moodle updates
Date Posted: 6.14.23
On Saturday, June 17th, between 7:00am and 10:00am, DELTA staff will be updating the Brickfield accessibility plugin in Moodle and applying a number of minor changes. There will be a brief (<5 minute) interruption to each Moodle service (Courses, Outreach, and Projects) during this time, but no extended outages are expected.
migrating load balancer service engines
Date Posted: 6.14.23
On Saturday, June 17th, between 6:00am and 10:00am, DELTA staff will be migrating the Advanced Load Balancer service engines to a new virtual machine cluster. There is not expected to be any interruption to DELTA services during this work.
Moodle Updates
Date Posted: 5.31.23
On Saturday, June 3, between 7:00 am and 9:00 am DELTA staff will be performing updates to the Moodle service. There will be a brief (<5 minute) interruption of each Moodle service (Courses, Projects, and Outreach). We do not expect any significant downtime of the service.
Moodle updates
Date Posted: 5.24.23
DELTA staff have identified some updates to Moodle 4.1 which need to be applied ASAP. DELTA staff will apply the updates Wednesday, May 24th, between 4:00pm and 4:20pm. No interruptions to service are expected.
WolfWare Wordpress upgrade
Date Posted: 5.3.23
On Tuesday, May 9th, between 2:00 pm and 4:00 pm, DELTA staff will be upgrading the WolfWare Wordpress Projects and Outreach services. There will be outages to the services during this time.
Update Moodle Courses2223
Date Posted: 5.3.23
On Tuesday, May 9th, between 11:30 am and noon, DELTA staff will be applying updates to the previous year's Moodle servers (Courses2223). There will be a brief (<10 minute) interruption to the service during this time.
Update Moodle Courses2324
Date Posted: 5.3.23
On Tuesday, May 9th, between 11:00 am and 11:30 am, DELTA staff will be updating the current Moodle Courses service (Courses2223) to version 4.1.3 and apply several minor updates. There will be a brief (<10 minute) interruption to the service during this time.
Update Moodle Projects and Outreach
Date Posted: 5.3.23
On Monday, May 8th, between 1:00 pm and 5:00 pm, DELTA staff will be upgrading the Moodle Projects and Outreach services. Both services will see substantial (1-2 hour) outages during this time.
WolfWare website updates
Date Posted: 5.3.23
On Thursday, May 11th, between 1:00pm and 1:15pm, DELTA staff will be performing updates to the WolfWare website. We do not anticipate any service interruption during this time.