Maintenance in US-Virginia-M-2 Region

Scheduled for Feb 8, 05:00 - 09:15 UTC

Scheduled

Skytap will be performing maintenance in the US-Virginia-M-2 region on:
February 8, 2026 12:00 AM Virginia time (February 8, 2026 05:00 UTC).

The maintenance duration is expected to be up to 4 hours, 15 minutes.

During this maintenance window:
12:00 AM Virginia time:
- All LPARs in the region will be locked:
----- Locked LPARs are unable to change state (cannot be suspended, resumed, shutdown, powered off or powered on)
----- Environments or templates containing a locked LPAR are unable to be copied
- Public IPs attached to VMs and VPNs will experience disruptions between 1 and 5 minutes long per IP during the duration of the maintenance
- ExpressRoutes will experience a disruption in service lasting between 1 to 15 minutes
- SRA connections to all LPARs in the region will experience disruptions
3:45 AM Virginia time: All LPARs in the region will be unlocked; the unlock process may take up to 15 minutes to complete
4:00 AM Virginia time: Additional non-customer impacting maintenance items will take place
4:15 AM Virginia time: Maintenance completed

Important Notes:
- As a point of clarification, Skytap will NOT be shutting down any LPARs or VMs during this maintenance
- Actions that are scheduled to occur during the maintenance window related to locked VMs or LPARs may fail
- Copy-to-Region operations during the maintenance window related to locked VMs or LPARs may fail

If you have any questions about this maintenance, you can open a support request by sending an email to support@skytap.com
Posted Jan 07, 2026 - 15:12 UTC
This scheduled maintenance affects: US-Virginia-M-2 (US-Virginia-M-2 POWER Compute, US-Virginia-M-2 Network, US-Virginia-M-2 Services).