EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE: JOHANNESBURG (AF3) CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE
Scheduled Maintenance Report for NTT Ltd. Cloud
Completed
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Posted Nov 17, 2017 - 20:00 UTC
In progress
Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted Nov 17, 2017 - 18:00 UTC
Scheduled
Impact: AF3 clients could see brief packet-loss on 3 occasions during failover. AF3 and AF5 clients the UI/API will be in Network Maintenance Mode for duration of maintenance. See notes below for restrictions.

Dear Client

On the date listed below engineers will be performing maintenance in the following cloud location. This maintenance is needed to perform upgrades to network devices supporting cloud services. During the maintenance, engineers will be performing vendor recommended software upgrades to these devices. Engineers will work on device in a rolling fashion requiring fail-over. The fail-over is a non-stateful fail-over, clients will see network connections reset and possible brief packet-loss. During this maintenance the UI/API will be in Network Maintenance mode. See notes below for restrictions.

Change Reference Number: CHM116619276
Johannesburg (AF3): Friday November 17th 08:00 PM South Africa Standard Time (18:00 PM UTC)
Expected Total Duration: 2 Hour

Note: Network Maintenance Mode :

1) The Admin UI and API will be available during the maintenance window, but users will be subject to the restrictions described in #2 below.
2) Starting at the beginning of maintenance event, the Admin UI and API will stop accepting any requests for actions related to Cloud Networks. This means users will not be able to deploy or make changes to Vlans, VIPs , ACLs or NATs. Please note that all deployed Cloud Servers and Networks will continue to function as normal - the system will simply block actions from being made using the Admin UI or API.
3) Except for the restrictions related to Cloud Networks all other Cloud functions will continue normally.
4) Once the maintenance is complete, the ability to take actions related to Cloud Networks will be restored.

This maintenance is specific only to the affected data center locations and other Geographic Regions will continue to function normally.
Posted Nov 16, 2017 - 22:07 UTC
This scheduled maintenance affected: AF - Johannesburg (NTT Cloud - AF3, CSfS AF5).