Central Storage for High Availability Applications Scott Baily, Director of ACNS January 26, /26/2015UTFAB FY15 Supplemental Proposal1

~10X Data Growth in 2 Years! 01/26/2015UTFAB FY15 Supplemental Proposal2

3 Years Ago (Big Green Box) 01/26/2015UTFAB FY15 Supplemental Proposal3 Figure 5 LSA JBOD = Just a Bunch of Disks 45 $222/Raw_TB Enterprise Class II disks Cooling & vibration design

2 Years Ago Next Gen “Silver Boxes” 01/26/2015UTFAB FY15 Supplemental Proposal4 72 $167/Raw_TB Deployed Variously

Then, Virtualization 01/26/2015UTFAB FY15 Supplemental Proposal5 Server Virtualization Server Virtualization Data Virtualization (DataCore) Data Virtualization (DataCore) Storage in DR Room Storage in Main Data Center RFP & Consultant

But, Virtualization -> Intermittent and Very Painful Failures 01/26/2015UTFAB FY15 Supplemental Proposal6 Server Virtualization Server Virtualization Data Virtualization (DataCore) Data Virtualization (DataCore) Storage in DR Room Storage in Main Data Center Intermittent Failures = Disaster DataCore – “NMP”

Anyone remember Day 1 of Fall, 2014? 01/26/2015UTFAB FY15 Supplemental Proposal7

44 Outages in Two Years! Avg. Duration: 3.5 hrs. (Minutes-12 hrs.) Avg. No. Systems: 71 (1-350) 01/26/2015UTFAB FY15 Supplemental Proposal8

Departments Affected (Down) CVMBS AgSci CASA Research Services TILT/OnlinePlus Development and Advancement Campus Recreation CSU Libraries Information Systems Institutional Research Morgan Library External Relations Parking Services LSC Central Receiving Career Center Registrar 01/26/2015UTFAB FY15 Supplemental Proposal9

Services Affected (Down) Main CSU website LAMP (200 services) Central help desk ticketing system Central login, eID Some All listservs Emergency mail All Kuali services RAMweb 01/26/2015UTFAB FY15 Supplemental Proposal10

BUDGET REQUEST: ACNS Storage Supplement ACNS (over 2 years)$450k UTFAB (FY 15 or FY15-16) Request$50k SPARC (one-time) Request$189k Total$689k FY16 Budget Hearings: January 28, 2015 – Student contribution (7.3%) will be very meaningful 01/26/2015UTFAB FY15 Supplemental Proposal11

Benefit Most critical student applications (RAMweb, wireless authentication, hundreds of web services) will benefit from new, HA server cluster Downtime due to server or storage failures should be minutes, if any $50k is a very significant contribution! – 7.3% of the total is also fair and reasonable March 2, 2011UTFAB Supplemental Request12

Schedule Work will begin Spring, 2015 Systems will be ready for start of Fall, 2015 Semester 01/26/2015UTFAB FY15 Supplemental Proposal13

Support Equipment purchases will include a minimum of 3 years hardware and software maintenance ACNS employees will manage and maintain new systems Applications & users will continue to be supported as they are now 01/26/2015UTFAB FY15 Supplemental Proposal14

March 2, 2011UTFAB Supplemental Request15 UTFAB Funding Criteria 1. Benefit as many students as possible All CSU students use applications that will benefit 2. Ability to effectively utilize the feeYour decision 3. Not funded by CFTCorrect 4. Adherence to budget and accountability Your decision 5. Potential for direct student useWithout question 6. Effort, thought & clarity in the planYour decision 7. Quantitative usage dataOutage information available 8. Financial co-sponsorship92.7% Central, 7.3% UTFAB 9. Central/distributed balanceYour decision 10. Not part of other UTFAB projectsCorrect

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