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Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted May 27, 2026 - 12:00 EDT
Scheduled
ITS will be conducting maintenance on Wednesday, May 27 from 12:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
The Dell PowerScale array in the Lowell datacenter will be upgraded to a more recent version of its OneFS operating system, to address bugs, stability and security concerns. The procedure should be transparent to the user facing community, and no downtime/outage is expected. File access performance may be slightly affected during the upgrade window.
The PowerScale array serves shares/exports the following areas:
- Windows (SMB) file shares files.brandeis.edu research.brandeis.edu