Moodle success at ULCC17th December 2009
Moodle success at ULCC17th December 2009
Moodle Moodle WonderlandWonderland
Agenda
• Success in 2009
• Progress in 2009
• The ULCC data centre strategy
• Scaling up your moodle service
Success
‘Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.’
Woody Allen
Hosted user group 2009
Highlights of the year
100+ Moodle customers
Echo360 pilot
Gordon’s podcasts
Video streaming
Recruited extra staff
Conversions from Pilot to Live
Number of Moodle/Mahara installations at ULCC
Moodle/Mahara Installations hosted at ULCC
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
2007 2008 2009
Number installations
Registered Moodle users at ULCC
Number registered Moodle users (thousands)
0
50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
2007 2008 2009
November
Number users ('000s)
ULCC Moodle activity Jun08 - today
ULCC Moodle Activity
0
500000
1000000
1500000
2000000
2500000
3000000
3500000
4000000
4500000
5000000
Jun-08 Jul-08 Aug-08 Sep-08 Oct-08 Nov-08 Dec-08 Jan-09 Feb-09 Mar-09 Apr-09 May-09 Jun-09 Jul-09 Aug-09 Sep-09 Oct-09 Nov-09
Average activity per customer
Average activity per customer
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
45
50
2007 2008 2009
November
Activity (000's)
Average number registered Moodle users per customer
Average number of registered Moodle users per customer
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
2.5
3
3.5
4
4.5
2007 2008 2009
November
Number of users (000's)
Scaling the service
Scaling up
General VM clusterHardware server App Services VM cluster
VM console
ULCC infrastructure
• Advantages of VMware platforms
– Provide automatic fail over if a hardware platform fails
– Resources are utilised more efficiently
– Easy to upgrade – more CPUs, more RAM as needed
– Easier system management
Scaling Moodle levels
Entry Level
Scaling up
ILPs, Mahara
Live usage, but early days
Shared with many other installations
Shared VM with limited number of others
Dedicated VM, 2 CPUs
Year1
Year2 onwards
Dedicated VM, 4 CPUs or more, more RAM, disk space
Additional features User maturity
Another quote
"If A equals success,
then the formula is A = X +Y + Z,
with X being work, Y play,
and Z keeping your mouth shut."
Albert Einstein
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