TUMS

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TUMS

• March 25, 2009

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AGENDA - TUMS

• Project Updates
• VOIP Deployment (Mona Brennan-Coles)
• SLB Data Center Upgrade (Doug Vandevrie)
• Infrastructure Updates
• Email Updates (Ed Gibson)
• Data Management (Jon Hickmott)
• VMWare Presentation Foxnet Solutions

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Project Updates

• TUMS March 25th

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VoIP Deployment Project

• Power Strategy Closet Upgrades
• UPS/AC/Generator/PoE Network Switches
• VoIP Telephone Deployment
• Replace digital phones
• Use one network port for both computer and phone

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Power Strategy Closet Upgrades
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VoIP Phone Deployment - Completed

• Support Services Building
• Material Sciences Addition
• New Sports (TRAC) Facility Building
• Robarts Research Institute

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VoIP Phone Deployment - Scheduled

• Clinical Skills (March 31st)
• Kresge, Molecular Biology Laboratory (April 1st)
• Avian Research (April 2009)
• Dental Sciences, Medical Sciences, Health
  Sciences Addition (April/May 2009)
• ICFAR Building (May 2009)
• West Valley Building (June 2009)

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VoIP 911 Location Lookup

• Provide Location information for 911 calls
• Web display at Campus Police Dispatch
• Prototype
• Completed and reviewed by Campus Police
• Testing
• March and April 2009
• Deployment
• May 2009

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SLB Data Center Upgrade

• Scope
• Electrical
• UPS Replacement
• 160KVA UPS to be moved from NSC237
• doubling our current UPS capacity in SLB29
• Electrical Distribution upgrade within facility
• Move to 208V distribution within all racks
• Improved power efficiency and economies
• HVAC upgrades
• Replace one A/C with New, larger AC

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SLB Data Center Upgrade

• Scope
• Monitoring
• Improved environmental and facilities monitoring
• equivalent to that in SSB
• Remote Management
• Replace legacy Analog KVM with IP enabled KVM

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SLB Data Center Upgrade

• Current Status
• Asset inventory and initial Asset classification
  complete
• 8 servers being moved to SSB on March 29th as a
  1st step in risk mitigation for services supplied
  by these hosts.
• IP KVM Hardware on order
• Should be onsite by end of March.
• Planning Meetings continue with PPD
• more to come

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Infrastructure Updates

• TUMS March 25th

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Email Outlook Connector

• Stats 586 Users -gt 395 Converted (67)
• Sun provided a Calendar/Connector SME onsite for
  1 week
• Outcomes
• Connector application is an add-on to Outlook.
• Policy changes within the outlook application
  could disable the connector add-on
• Re-enabling the add-on presents a faster
  recovery path to some problems

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Email Outlook Connector

• Reoccurring Meeting Bug
• Documented and repeatable instances where a
  reoccurring meeting is deleted in outlook.
• Instance is observed to disappear from outlook
  and CE.
• However, after a refresh of the associated
  calendar in Outlook deleted instance reappears
• Deleted instance does not reappear in CE
• If you encounter this bug please advise ITS by
  emailing connector-support_at_uwo.ca

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Data Deduplication Project

• Completed Deployment
• All Clients migrated to tape backups (to clear
  disk)
• Upgraded FalconStor Virtual Tape Library (new
  server)
• Installed FalconStor Single Instance Repository
• Installed new disk and reorganized old disk
• VTL has 9 TB
• SIR has 32 TB
• All client backups migrated to new environment
• Fine tuned the deduplication process
• Some Compressed backups moved back to tape
• Currently averaging 151 or better compression

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Data Deduplication Infrastructure
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Data Deduplication Process

• Backup taken over night written to virtual tapes
  on the VTL
• Clone process runs in morning reads virtual tapes
  on VTL and writes them to physical tapes in L700
  tape library (In Engineering)
• Deduplication process run in afternoons reads all
  FULL Virtual tapes and writes only unique blocks
  to Single Instance Repository
• Virtual tape replaced with a virtual index tape

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Tier II Storage

• New storage model being designed to supplement
  the
• Current production SAN
• More affordable storage
• Larger capacity
• Not as redundant
• Limited performance
• Alternative backup model

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Tier II hardware and software

• 2 Sun X4500 servers purchased
• 48 x 500GB Sata drives (16 TB usable under RAID
  60)
• Currently running Solaris 10 which offers
• ZFS, NFS, iSCSI, Compression
• SnapShots, Replication, Thin provisioning
• Investigating OpenSolaris which adds
• CIFS, WebDav
• (Rumors Data Deduplication in near future)

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Tier II alternative Backup model

• Uses Snapshots and Replication
• Snapshot taken ever night
• Snapshot is replicated over to 2nd disk array
• Maintain nightly snapshots on both arrays back 56
  days
• Can tailor the backups to the data
• Static data backed up once/week
• Active data backed up multiple time a day

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