Incidents:

3 pools from msufs12 and msufs13 went offline, and caused file stage-in errors in jobs. Restarting the 3 pools fixed the problem. 

Procurement: 

In contact with Dell to get quote for the computing and storage nodes.

software:

Next OS an provision: Deployed CentOS 8 Stream with Cobbler for computing and storage nodes, configured by cfengine. We are testing different software deployment and configuration on CentOS 8 Stream. 

verified that VMware 7 can use not-officially-supported MD3460 storage (Dell-customized VMware ISOs are still available on the VMware site) .  This will help the MSU transition to TrueNAS as it won't be our only storage, thus upgrading to VMware 7 is not contingent on ordering/receiving a second TrueNAS storage node.   iSCSI connectivity is still waiting on configuration.