Project Name:  WSUS Updates Approval (Reboot required, community message needs to be sent out)
Priority:  1
Project Participants:  Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime:  N/A
Server(s) Affected:  wsus-01
Service(s) Affected:  Windows Update
Objective: Approve for distribution to Workstations relevant available updates from Microsoft

Project Name:  Apply Update 5 to Virtual Center vcpd01 (VC at Telefonica already at Update 5)
Priority:  2
Project Participants:  Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime:  N/A
Server(s) Affected:  vcpd01 (no VMs will be affected)
Service(s) Affected:  VI Client
Objective:  Go from Update 4 to Update 5 Build 174841 7/10/09.  This also updates the VI Client and VMware Tools.   Highlight:  significant performance and scalability improvements to VMware HA.  This update should be applied before updating the ESX Hosts.

Project Name:  Enable VT in BIOS to ESX Hosts to Handle 64-bit Guest Operating Systems (to be performed along side Project 4 and possibly Project 5)
Priority:  3
Project Participants:  Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime:  1 Hour (Projects 3+4+5+6)
Server(s) Affected:  vipd03
Service(s) Affected: None
Objective:  Enable VT feature in BIOS to allow installations of 64-bit operating systems like Windows 2008 Server (UM only offering 64-bit version of Win 2008)

Project Name:  Apply Update 5 to ESX Host vipd03
Priority:  4
Project Participants:  Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime:  1 Hour (Projects 3+4+5+6)
Server(s) Affected:  vipd03 and VMs will be migrated to other hosts
Service(s) Affected:  None
Objective:  Go from Update 4 to Update 5 Build 207095 12/3/09.  Some highlights:  updated Broadcom NIC driver (what we have), support for guest OS like Windows 7 (32/64-bit), Windows 2008 Server (64-bit), Ubuntu 9.04 (32/64-bit), updated VMTools, memory leak solution (per VMware Support).  Will apply to one ESX Host per week.  Telefonica’s two ESX Hosts will be done onsite at a future date.

Project Name:  Apply IBM Recommended Firmware Upgrades
Priority:  5
Project Participants:  Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime:  1 Hour (Projects 3+4+5+6)
Server(s) Affected: vipd03
Service(s) Affected:  None
Objective: Install IBM recommended firmware upgrades (BIOS, CPLD, ServeRAID SAS Controller).  If applicable, plan on doing this task last after applying the Vmware updates noted above.

Project Name:  Onboard Broadcom NIC Testing on vipd03
Priority:  6
Project Participants: Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime:  1 Hour
Server(s) Affected:  vipd03
Service(s) Affected: None
Objective: Determine if one of two ports on the onboard dual NIC is bad

Project Name:  Applying Service Packs to SPS-01
Priority:  7
Project Participants:  Richard Henderson
Projected Downtime: 30-60 minutes
Server(s) Affected:  sps-01
Service(s) Affected:  Windows SharePoint 2007
Objective: Apply two Service Packs:  SharePoint 3.0 SP2 and Office 2007 Server SP2

Project Name:  blog updates
Priority:  8
Project Participants:  David Piniella
Projected Downtime:  N/A
Server(s) Affected:  blog-01 and all blogs hosted on blog-01
Service(s) Affected:  blogs on blog-01
Objective: update wordpress version to 2.9.1 for all blogs possible and update all plugins

Project Name:  A/C Servicing POSTPONED, SmartAir did not show
Priority:  9
Project Participants:  Smart Air
Projected Downtime:  4 hours
Server(s) Affected: Hopefully none
Service(s) Affected:  Cooling in G183
Objective: See e-mail below