1. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Berkeley
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
CNIL May 2006 Report These slides found at
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2. Improvement of Instructional Services
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Berkeley
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Mission: Provide excellent computing and networking services in support of the EECS department's instructional and research goals.
Last years’ goals:
Improvement of Instructional Services
Consolidation, Refurbishing Labs (119 Cory, 330 Soda, 276 Soda, 277 Soda)
Refresh Hardware
Better sharing of people and servers
Strengthening research IT infrastructure (focus on security)
Campus Minimum Security Standards – we’re farther along than everyone
VPN, patches, a, encryption, authentication, firewalls, passwords, port scanning, reduce unnecessary services, training, etc.
Plus: Logging, access control, physical security
Still expensive and hard to do well (and people are the risk)
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3. Some Other Accomplishments From Last Year
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Berkeley
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Some Other Accomplishments From Last Year
New Helpdesk office in 313 Soda M-F 9am-1pm
IRIS Webpage FAQs
New support for Mac OSX
Added CUSG printer support contracts
Created “yum” repository for updating Linux client software.
New Barracuda Anti-Spam Servers
eliminated internal mail relays
AirBears and a service to Soda, Cory, BWRC, and HMMB
MESH network across large swaths of campus
Thanks to Chairs Malik and Lee, CUSG debt is eliminated at FY end
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4. Staff Changes From 31 FTE to 30 FTE New IT Director – Eric Fraser
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Berkeley
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Staff Changes
From 31 FTE to 30 FTE
New IT Director – Eric Fraser
New ISG Staff – Linda Huang
New IMG Staff – Emrys Ingersoll
Hua-Pei Chen left the Director position to take a new position at Georgia Tech
Milan Andric from IMG took a position at the School of Journalism
Khossrov Taherian from ESG took a position with CITRIS
Khossrov’s position with ISG was moved to ESG
Linda Huang was hired for the new ISG position
Emrys Ingersoll moved laterally from CUSG/IDSG to IMG filling Milan’s old position
Eric Fraser was hired into the Director position
Decrease in staff -> Decrease in costs -> Do more with Less
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5. Network Rolling Upgrade
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Berkeley
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Network Rolling Upgrade
Core
Core
Core
Wireless
Wireless
Wireless
Replace Core Network this year
Equipment at end of life
Improve bandwidth between Soda and Cory to 10Gb
Improve bandwidth to centralized storage and other services to 10Gb
Higher backplane bandwidth to support Gb to the desktop in the next round of upgrades
Can offer Gb to the desktop or server rooms at a cost to the user of $16K for 48-ports
Replace Firewalls this year
Current system is susceptible to DOS attacks
10Gb to campus is possible for an additional ~$10K but likely premature
This would allow high bandwidth to Campus Datacenter, not to CENIC
Will wait until driven by research needs or co-location to campus datacenter
Replace wireless infrastructure next year
Replace closet networking in two years
At that time full Gb to desktop will be supported
Network ICF fee stays same this year as last.
Next 2 years should increase and then level off (offset by future decreases in storage and CIS)
Closet
Closet
Closet
4 years
Demand for 10Gb to CENIC?
Demand for 1Gb to the Desktop?
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6. Storage Updates Current NetApp System
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Berkeley
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Storage Updates
Historically, Storage needs have grown
at a rate of 1TB/year
Current NetApp System
Nearing full capacity of design
NetApp is very expensive for everything
but, has been extremely flexible and reliable
NetApp Additional Capacity this year
buy 1TB of storage, which puts us at capacity of current system
additional growth on current hardware possible by reducing the duration of snapshots
Purchase small amount of new hardware this year to ease migration to more flexible hardware next year
SAN solution
looking at solutions from Sun, IBM, and BlueArc
What additional types of storage would you like to see?
Premium with no backups
Archival storage for read-only (such as web pages for old project data)
Temporary scratch, work, or collaborative space
Web-based
Get feedback on demand for other tier types of storage such as:
Non-backed up storage
Archival storage for read-only (such as webpages for old project data)
Temporary scratch, work or collaborative space
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7. Identity Management Unifying EECS Usernames with CalNet ID Background
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Berkeley
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
Identity Management
Unifying EECS Usernames with CalNet ID
Background
EECS has historically kept unified user space over 5000 computers, 1500 users
Recent campus deployment of CalNet “friendly” usernames
Useful to unify with
Many campus services (Blu, UniBears, AirBears, BFS) now utilize CalNet for authentication
In long-run could shift burden of account mgmt. to campus and free up technical resources
Immediate Goals
Encourage all EECS users to setup CalNet ID to one that matches EECS username
Where there is a conflict
Attempt to reclaim CalNet ID to match EECS username (some success in the past)
or, consider changing EECS username
Develop an LDAP plug-in which will authenticate first against EECS, then against Campus
this will even work if EECS and campus names/passwords do not match
Longer-term goals
Support longer usernames on EECS systems (Jan 2007)
LDAP authoritative server for Unix (Jan 2007)
Windows logins synchronized with LDAP (not yet tested)
Integration with CalNet ID
also working on single sign-on CalNet ID for web applications (EECS/ERSO)
Get feedback on demand for other tier types of storage such as:
Non-backed up storage
Archival storage for read-only (such as webpages for old project data)
Temporary scratch, work or collaborative space
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8. FEE Structure Fiscal Year 2005-06 2006-07 CIS - Full User Collaborator
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Berkeley
ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES
FEE Structure
Fiscal Year %
Difference
CIS - Full User
$75.50/month/user 0%
Collaborator
$25.00/month/user
Emeritus
$12.00/month/user
ICF - Resident
$9.75/month/user
Non-Resident
$2.50/month/user
Storage
$7.00/GB/month
$4.50/GB/month
-21%
CUSG - Desktop
$890/year
Server
$2670/year
Time and Materials
$94.50/hour
Goals:
Be conservative with rates this year with management change
Bring the cost of storage down, with expectation that it will come down again next year
Dropped previously proposed $5/month windows charge
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