SLES Offline Upgrade

Background

The Open Telekom Cloud (OTC) does not directly support the SLES distribution upgrade process, e.g. using "zypper dist-upgrade". As we have described in an earlier blog post, we could achieve dist-upgrade by changing the repos and performing the online upgrade. However, as outlined by...

new NVIDIA license service DLS 3.1 available

Migration Information

Current (legacy) NVIDA license service reaches end of support on July 31st, 2023. Therefore a new NVIDIA license service was prepared. The new NVIDIA license service is based on DLS version 3.1 (Delegated License Service 3.1 - https://docs.nvidia.com/license-system/dls/3.1.0...

Cloud:OTC OBS Project GPG key renewal

GPG key extension of Cloud:OTC repositories on 20th of October 2022

The CLOUD:OTC GPG key is expired. Some Linux based distributions (except RHEL and SUSE) are affected which are currently using the following GPG key:

$ sudo apt-key list
pub   rsa2048 2018-06-11 [SC] [expired: 2022-10-20]...

NVIDIA license service in region eu-de will be migrated to new servers on June 13th, 2022

Migration Information

New servers of NVIDA license service in region eu-de have been set up to support latest features and products. These servers have new IP addresses and will be activated by DNS change on June 13th, 2022.

If the DNS names below are used, the clients will use the new servers...

Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) and Windows Activation Service (KMS) will be migrated to new servers on January 17th, 2022

Migration Information

New Servers of Windows Server Update Service (WSUS) and Windows Activation Service (KMS) in Region eu-de have been set up to support latest MS features and products e.g. Windows Server 2022. These servers have new IP addresses and will be activated by changing the DNS entries...