[Nebula-users] Upgrade of OS on Nebula: Action needed from all users

[Peter Bortas]

Dear Nebula users,

A reminder about this upgrade that requires you to migrate your work to 
the new EL9 environment. Nebula will completely switch to the new 
environment May 15.

Regards,

-- 

Peter Bortas, NSC

On 3/25/24 01:22, Peter Bortas wrote:
> Dear Nebula users,
>
> Nebulas current operating system (CentOS 7, which is based on RedHat 
> Enterprise Linux 7) will not receive any security updates after 
> 2024-06-30. As Nebula is planned to continue operating longer than 
> this, we need to upgrade the operating system.
>
>
> Major upcoming change to Nebula
> ----------------------------------
>
> In the second half of May, NSC will make a major upgrade of the Nebula
> operating system, from CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 9.
>
> During the period leading up to the final upgrade, Nebula will be
> split into an upgraded and a non-upgraded part.
>
> Storage (/nobackup, /home) is not affected and will be available from
> both parts.
>
> All Nebula users will need to move their work to the Rocky 9 part of
> Nebula, but can choose when during the upgrade period to do so. In
> order to have enough time to solve any problems, we recommend that you
> move sooner rather than later.
>
> For most users, we believe the move will be a quick and simple
> operation. You should expect to be able to run your software like
> before.
>
> For detailed information on the change and what you need to do, see
> https://www.nsc.liu.se/support/systems/nebula-os-upgrade/.
>
> If you have any questions regarding the upgrade, or need any help to
> do the switch, please contact smhi-support at nsc.liu.se. Reply-to:
> for this mail is also set to the support address, so take extra care
> if you want to do private replies to this email.
>
>
> Regards,
>