1. Virtualization & Disaster Recovery
UniData to SQL
Virtualization & Disaster Recovery
Presented by: Ken Williams and Wade Scheffner
American Digital Corporation
May 21, 2013

2. Agenda About American Digital SQL Migration Virtualization HA & DR
Higher Education Recovery
Questions & Answers

3. About American Digital
Systems Engineers and certified technologists have been engaged in over 200 Colleague by Ellucian installations since 2001.
Have implemented Colleague and peripheral applications on Every Platform and Every Database
Dedicated Ellucian-focused staff with proven processes
Project Management
Consulting
“Vendor-Agnostic” Approach

4. American Digital’s Partners
Ellucian
Hewlett-Packard
VMware
Microsoft
IBM
Oracle
Dell
Cisco
Symantec
EMC
Others

5. Solution Offerings
Servers and Storage for both Unix and Windows environments
Desktop and Server Virtualization
Enterprise Backup & Recovery
Networking and Security
High Availability and Disaster Recovery
Infrastructure Assessment and Analysis Services
“Health Check” & System Patching / Update Services

6. Capabilities Infrastructure Assessment Services
Virtualization Assessment Services
Cloud Readiness Assessment Services
Unix to Windows/Linux Migrations
“Health Check” & System Patching Services
Database Performance Tuning (UniData, SQL, Oracle)
Operating Systems (All Unix, Windows & Linux)
Private Cloud Implementations

7. Ellucian Technical Training Week 2008
Migrate to SQL - Why?
Why SQL Server?
More Business Intelligence reporting tools to choose from:
Business Objects / Ellucian Reporting & Operating Analytics
SQL Server management studio
Any third-party ODBC complaint tools
“Perceived” Cheaper hardware costs
Minimal training needed for Power-users
Ellucian Delivered bolt-ons require SQL database as well… (i.e. DROA, Portal, Recruiter, etc.)
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8. Ellucian Technical Training Week 2008
Migrate to SQL - How?
How does my institution get there?
Work with Ellucian to identify where/how they can assist you with the migration
Ellucian Action Planning Process helps to create 3 year plan
Will you be migrating Colleague DB and Application server separately or as part of another initiative (Reporting & Operating Analytics, Portal, Recruiter)
Using a phased approach will minimize cost, manpower, and more importantly – help you keep your sanity!
Identify areas where fault-tolerance and high availability may be necessary to ensure end-user experience mirrors that of previous environment
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9. Migrate to SQL - Concerns
Ellucian Technical Training Week 2008
Migrate to SQL - Concerns
Once I’ve made the move, what do I need to be concerned about?
Database Server Memory
In most cases, the more physical RAM a server has, the greater SQL Server's performance
In order to Maximize the amount of RAM that can be utilized, be sure to utilize correct editions of Server OS and SQL Server.
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10. Migrate to SQL - Concerns
Ellucian Technical Training Week 2008
Migrate to SQL - Concerns
Once I’ve made the move, what do I need to be concerned about?
Storage Requirements
For best I/O performance, use the fastest disk drives available in the disk arrays
Don't store operating system, application software, or databases on single disk drives as single drives don't afford any fault tolerance
Purchase as many drives as budget allows – space is not the issue, limiting I/O contention is
Isolate Index, Data, Log, Application files on separate RAID Groups to further reduce contention
Use either RAID 1+0 or RAID 5 (not preferred for transactional files but OK for Application)
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11. SQL Migration – What does it look like?
Matt

12. SQL Solution Components
WebAdvisor, UI 4.x, Ellucian Portal
Colleague Application
(Communication)
Network
SQL Database Server
Physical Storage (Information)

19. Virtualization – Why is it important?
Reducing physical assets
Improving asset utilization
Reduced application deployment time
High Availability
Disaster Recovery considerations
Alignment of resources
= Increased Operational Efficiency

20. Virtualization – Business Drivers
Why do you need to virtualize?
Improve Utilization
High Availability
Disaster Recovery / Business Continuance
Determine what is to be virtualized
Storage
Systems
Networks
Sysix was founded in 1988, and purchased through a managed buyout by our current president and CEO, John Sheaffer, in January of 2001.
Through the last 2 years, Sysix began and continued the process of transforming itself from a product reseller into a total IT Business Solutions provider.
Today, Sysix remains a privately held company. It encompasses 3 distinct operating companies: Sysix Technologies, the product reselling subsidiary; Sysix Financial, the leasing and flexible financing subsidiary; and Sysix Consulting, the consulting services subsidiary.
Currently serving over 1500 customers, Sysix has seven offices nationwide. We hold premier partner status with the leading technology manufacturers including HP, IBM, Sun, and EMC and are one of the founding members of the Solutions Consortium.

21. Virtualization - Assessment
Identify Candidates based on:
Current Resource Load
Space
Power
Cooling
Disaster Recovery and High Availability needs
Server Provisioning
Cost Model / ROI
Sysix was founded in 1988, and purchased through a managed buyout by our current president and CEO, John Sheaffer, in January of 2001.
Through the last 2 years, Sysix began and continued the process of transforming itself from a product reseller into a total IT Business Solutions provider.
Today, Sysix remains a privately held company. It encompasses 3 distinct operating companies: Sysix Technologies, the product reselling subsidiary; Sysix Financial, the leasing and flexible financing subsidiary; and Sysix Consulting, the consulting services subsidiary.
Currently serving over 1500 customers, Sysix has seven offices nationwide. We hold premier partner status with the leading technology manufacturers including HP, IBM, Sun, and EMC and are one of the founding members of the Solutions Consortium.

22. Virtualization – Design & Planning
Determine the requirements of the new environment
Determine the schedule and process for migrating from Physical to Virtual
Establish monitoring and management strategy
Identify candidates and courses for training
Sysix was founded in 1988, and purchased through a managed buyout by our current president and CEO, John Sheaffer, in January of 2001.
Through the last 2 years, Sysix began and continued the process of transforming itself from a product reseller into a total IT Business Solutions provider.
Today, Sysix remains a privately held company. It encompasses 3 distinct operating companies: Sysix Technologies, the product reselling subsidiary; Sysix Financial, the leasing and flexible financing subsidiary; and Sysix Consulting, the consulting services subsidiary.
Currently serving over 1500 customers, Sysix has seven offices nationwide. We hold premier partner status with the leading technology manufacturers including HP, IBM, Sun, and EMC and are one of the founding members of the Solutions Consortium.

23. Virtualization - Deployment
Training
Establish Baseline environment
Server template
Resource sharing plan / hierarchy
Management and Monitoring tools
Migrate Physical to Virtual
Test
Verify
Execute
Sysix was founded in 1988, and purchased through a managed buyout by our current president and CEO, John Sheaffer, in January of 2001.
Through the last 2 years, Sysix began and continued the process of transforming itself from a product reseller into a total IT Business Solutions provider.
Today, Sysix remains a privately held company. It encompasses 3 distinct operating companies: Sysix Technologies, the product reselling subsidiary; Sysix Financial, the leasing and flexible financing subsidiary; and Sysix Consulting, the consulting services subsidiary.
Currently serving over 1500 customers, Sysix has seven offices nationwide. We hold premier partner status with the leading technology manufacturers including HP, IBM, Sun, and EMC and are one of the founding members of the Solutions Consortium.

24. Virtualized Architecture Samples
Matt

25. HA Solution Sample (Hybrid)

26. HA Solution Sample (Fully Virtualized)

27. HA & DR Solution Sample

28. Higher Education Recovery: DR for Ellucian Institutions
Matt

29. DR Solution for Ellucian Environments
Features:
Core Colleague application availability (Payroll, Student System, etc.)
Periodic data (includes application) replication to American Digital’s facility
Secured communication link
Restore application availability over the Internet within 48 hours
Ability to run within the recovery environment for up to 6 weeks
Daily Monitoring & scheduled testing
Data restored to production facility

30. DR Solution for Ellucian Environements

31. IaaS
Matt

32. American Digital Hosted Services
Primary support including hosting in American Digital-provided data centers.
Hosted
IaaS
American Digital provides Tier 3, SAS70 certified data center(s)
American Digital owned infrastructure (Hardware, VMware, Microsoft, etc.)
Client retains responsibility for all applications (above OS or DB)
American Digital provides monitoring and management
System administration and technical support (OS patches and fixes)
Capacity planning, performance tuning, and reporting
Physical database administration
Operational support – including automation
Issue avoidance and resolution (24x7 help desk) 32

33. Benefits

34. Reflections Challenges Breaking down Barriers
Convergence of the Infrastructure & Abstraction of Infrastructure
Convergence of the People
Breaking Bad Habits
Understanding the underlying complexity of a virtualized system

35. Questions & Answers

36. Thank You! Ken Williams kenw@americandigital.com .
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