In
order to address an urgent,
industry-wide security advisory, all
virtual machines in SoftLayer data
centers World Wide will need to be
restarted over the next several days.
The restarts will be staggered to
minimize the overall impact to Bluemix
users. However, while the maintenance is
going on, you may experience several
windows during which Bluemix login and
application management functions
(stage/start/stop, etc.), and Services
are unavailable, and running
applications may be temporarily
unreachable. In addition, every
application will be automatically
restarted at least once.
Many of the Services that Bluemix
applications are bound to, will also be
temporarily unavailable, as their data
center servers are also restarted. Most
of these Services restarts will take
place during the same maintenance
windows listed below, however some
Services may be affected at times
outside these windows by other data
center dependencies.
For the US-SOUTH region, the main
windows will be:
* December 13 06:00 UTC for
approximately 10 hours
* December 14 06:00 UTC for
approximately 8 hours
* December 15 06:00 UTC for
approximately 8 hours
For the EU-GB region, the main window
will be:
* December 13 00:00 UTC for
approximately 8 hours
For the AU-SYD region, the main window
will be:
* December 12 15:00 UTC for
approximately 5 hours
If you have a Dedicated Bluemix region,
please consult with your IBM Advocate
for details of the maintenance schedule
for that region.
The duration of each interruption may be
less than the full maintenance window,
however, we strongly suggest to take
advantage of multi-region deployment of
critical apps, where applicable, to
minimize the disruption to your
production applications.
The Bluemix and Services Operation team
will take all reasonable steps to
minimize the disruption. We will closely
monitor the progress and provide
periodic updates via the status page at
http://ibm.biz/bluemixstatus as
necessary.
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