CANHEIT 2012
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CANHEIT 2012
Building the Digital University
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Disaster RecoveryThrough Cooperation
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We had a Dream - also a Nightmare
•Where we have been
•Where we are today
•Challenges
•Where we are going
Disaster RecoveryThrough Cooperation
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Who We Are
•St. Thomas University in Fredericton
•Mount Allison University in Sackville
•Université de Moncton in Moncton
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We had a Dream... Or Nightmare
•How would we cope?
•How would we get there?
•Who would pay for it?
•Who would join us
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Where We Have Been
•ECN
•Datatel cooperation
•Virtualized servers at one datacentre
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The ECN•The NB/PEI Educational Computer Network
•Forty Years (!) of cooperation - Yes... There were data networks 40 years ago... Maybe smoke signals???
•Great Organizational model
•Great Financial Model
•Network, Spam filtering, software licensing etc.
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ECN Network
St. Thomas at Fredericton
Mount Allisonat Sackville
Université de Moncton at
Moncton
Fredericton to Sackville:250km or < 10ms
Fredericton to Sackville:250km or < 10ms
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Datatel Cooperation
• MUSIC Consortium from 15 years ago
• Workorder system run from MTA
• MTA makes customizations etc.
• STU has provided analyst expertise
• Single team - lots of savings
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VMs at one site
• MTA early adopter of VM technology
• STU brought capital to the table
• MTA built datacentre, has staff
• Two Universities (120 VMs) in a rack
• Great efficiencies
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Where We Were 2010
• Virtualized Servers working very well
• Current agreement works and is model for small university cooperation
• Very productive, staff train and work together
• Huge positive environmental impact
• Management shares common vision
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Timeline to 2010
1970
2010
1980
1990
2000
ECN Network
Datatel
Shared Datacentre
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Challenges
• NO credible disaster recovery capability
• Rapidly growing storage requirements (memory and disk)
• Server Hosting/Maintenance Agreement ending 2012
• Current Infrastructure EOL in 2012
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Where are we going?
• Original agreement set to expire in 2012
• Refresh of current infrastructure (with NO DR capability) would cost about $250,000.00
• Background of rapid growth in storage and to a lesser extent RAM requirements
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KIP Funds
•STU Applied for KIP funds for several IT projects
•Received 485K
•Gave us funds to BOTH refresh datacentre AND establish DR facility
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DR Site•Looked at several options
•STU - didn’t want to build a machine room
•MTA - didn’t want to expand a machine room
•UNB - in the process of gutting a machine room
•Private rackspace vendors - problem was getting data to them (cost of bandwidth)
•Best solution - a University on the ECN network
•Ended up at Université de Moncton.
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D/R Process• Technical Staff did considerable research
framing the problem and looking for a solution
• We issued an RFI - received 5 responses
• Pursued discussions with one respondent to further define plans
• Issued an RFQ to finalize numbers
• Bulletproof was chosen as the partner
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Adopted Solution
MTA - Refresh UdeM - New
Servers
Storage
Automatic Replicationover ECN Network
(magic)
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Engaging UdeM
• We are excited about engaging another partner, in this case to house equipment
• Offer on the table for UdeM to put a rack at MTA
• Leverages ECN investments
• $500/month + Power
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Dell Equallogic• Sticker Shock - but it’s “ALL IN” and easy
to manage...
• Atomic Unit is the SAN
• Simple and powerful
• Replication is part of the package
• Peace of Mind (priceless)
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Key Points• New data centre infrastructure PLUS
DR site
• Five years maintenance up front
• Retain leadership position in IT
• New partner U de M, more welcome
• We sleep better now - much better!
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... But there’s more
• We’ve been approached by two other institutions, both wish to eliminate data centres, both have received quotes from commercial providers.
• Our costs are about 1/2 the commercial providers
• We must be doing something right!
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New Timeline
1970201
0198
0199
0200
0
ECN Network
Datatel
Shared Datacentre
2015
Datacentre + D/R
New Partners
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The Future• (1 year) We hope to be hosting servers for at
least four institutions - Huge win financially, environmentally and politically.
• (1 year) ECN plans to conduct a review to explore further cooperation/consolidation
• (3-4 years) be positioned to take advantage of what options exist - ECN Datacentre? Commercial providers? Rebuild of current sites? "the cloud"... Who knows.
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Further out...Forecast is cloudy....
But we will be ready for it.
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Dilbert• ...of course there's a relevant
Dilbert...
• We are too cheap to pay $45 to show you the cartoon, so see cartoon for 25/May/2012 at http://www.dilbert.com
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CANHEIT 2010
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2010... Nearby...
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Questions ?
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