Easyspace System Status

All systems and services operating as normal.

Planned Maintenance Notification – 26th March 2025

Maintenance: Update – DC5 Vcloud (VCD) Edge Server Firmware
Updates


As part of our commitment to quality and continual improvement, Iomart will perform maintenance in the DC5 Vcloud (VCD) management environment.

The work will specifically involve updating the Edge ESXi servers with the latest firmware.

What will happen?
Our Infrastructure Team will migrate the Edge VM off the ESXi server being updated.
The server will then be put into maintenance mode and the updates installed.

When will the work be carried out?
The maintenance work will be completed from 07:00 to 17:30 daily from 26th to 28th March (GMT) to the following schedule.

07:00 to 07:30 complete the live migration of the Edge VM from the Edge ESXi server and enter the server into maintenance mode.

07:30 to 17:30 complete the firmware update of the Edge ESXi server.

Who will be completing the work?
All maintenance activities will be completed by our Iomart infrastructure engineers.

Will I experience downtime?
During the maintenance window, there will be no downtime, and all Virtual Machines, workloads and services will continue to operate as normal.

There is a small risk that network connectivity into the VCD environment may be disrupted for a few seconds during the live migration of the Edge VM.

Planned Maintenance Notification – 27th March 2025

Maintenance: DC5 Core Network
As part of our commitment to quality and continual improvement, we are sending this notification as we intend to perform some planned maintenance on our Core network.

What will happen?
During the planned maintenance window, some Core Routers will undergo some configuration changes, once the activity is completed, some testing will be conducted.

When will the work be carried out?
The maintenance work will begin at 23:00 (GMT) on Thursday, 27th of March and last until 03:00 (GMT) in the evening.

Who will be completing the work?
All of the work will be completed by our experienced iomart network and infrastructure team.

Will I experience downtime?
During the maintenance window, customers may notice variation in latency whilst the new configuration is brought into service. This is expected to last no longer than a few minutes.

The maintenance has been classified as medium risk.