Move of ISE Shared Data Drive (S:\) Tonight!

March 19, 2015 in ISE

In January MIS sent an email with subject ‘Required Workstation Changes Incoming for ISE’.  This email described a migration plan for ISE data to new storage. Our initial plan was to address all personal home directories before migrating the shared data drive (S:\).  However, due to some recent communication with Enterprise Infrastructure & Operations (EI&O) we are accelerating our move of the shared data drive (S:\).  Due to the possibility of failure and data loss in the old location we are no longer waiting and will be moving the S:\ drive tonight.

network-drives-disconnectFor the most part this will be a transparent change.  Beginning at about 5:15PM tonight we will remove access to the S:\ drive and begin the data migration (copying of the data and any remaining changes should take between 3-6 hours). Tomorrow morning, when you login, the drive mapping should be updated by our policies and direct you to the new location.  In odd instances this does not happen automatically and it will require you to manually disconnect your S:\ drive.  Remember, you do have to log out and in for this to occur.

Disconnecting your S:\ drive is rather simple.  To disconnect, right-click on the S:\ drive within Windows Explorer and choose ‘Disconnect’ from the resulting context menu (as shown in the picture below).  Even without disconnecting, policies we have in place should update your mapped drive.

Rest assure, any remaining data at the old location will also be backed up to offline storage tomorrow in case there are any issues before we are able to migrate all user home directories/folders.  If you are among the users that still have a personal home directory in the old location you would have received an email from Mike (copied below).  We would appreciate it if you can work with us as soon as possible.

Thank you.

 

-MIS

 

PS: For those not using a Microsoft Windows workstation that does not receive our policies.  The network drive is changing as below:

 

OLD LOCATION: \\cns-ise-fs01.ad.ufl.edu\data\

NEW LOCATION (FULL PATH): \\osg-prod.cns-fs04.osg.ufl.edu\ise\DATA

NEW LOCATION (DFS PATH): \\ad.ufl.edu\ise\DATA