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The Depts volume reorganization is geared towards keeping the volume to a manageable size for backup and recovery purposes. The split is somewhat arbitrary, but falls along functional lines. Departments that have administrative functions (including the Deans' offices), committies, etc. are going to stay on the new Depts volume at drive letter O:. Largely academic departments and programs will move to the new Progs (P:) volume. Again, the folder (whichever volume it is on) that matches your primary departmental affiliation will continue to show up as drive G: One reason for keeping the administrative units on Depts/O: is the sheer amount of documentation and campus-wide emails routinely telling users to find forms and information on O:\suchandsuch.
What you need to do
Mainly, pay attention to the announcements concerning scheduled migration periods. Changes to the old storage during those after-hours migration periods may not be applied to the new storage and could be lost. Copies of your files on the file servers should not be altered or deleted until the volume is in production, or you could lose data. Check here for the status of a volume.
Monitoring and tuning
This is a major change to our file server environment, on which many other services depend. While many of the changes to you will be cosmetic (drive letter / server name changes), the behind-the-scene changes are significant. While the The systems have been performing well in testing, we are going to have to monitor and tune the system as it goes into production, and extraordinarily reliable over the summer, but we may need to go through another round when the system is under full load as the upcoming academic year begins.
Schedule
COURSES - Friday, June10th, 6pm
DEPTS - Friday, June 17th, 6pm
USERS - Monday, June 20th, 6pm
APPS - Monday, June 20th, 6pm
MEDIAVOL1 - Tuesday, June 21st, 6pm