Critical incident

University of Waterloo: Hyper-V VMs affected by a network power outage - Outage

Affected: Virtual Infrastructure

Current status of University of Waterloo: Minor issues — live University of Waterloo status

Timeline

1. Aug 20, 2026, 19:48 UTC
   investigating
   Hyper-V Dev environment was affected by a network equipment power outage, storage and VMs went offline. We have now recovered and restored VM state. Please let us know if there's any issue.
2. Sep 4, 2026, 13:57 UTC
   resolved
   Root cause has been identified and resolved. Hyper-V Dev environment was affected by a network equipment power outage, storage and VMs went offline. We have now recovered and restored VM state. Please let us know if there's any issue.

Updates as published by University of Waterloo (original).