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Titan Cloud: Server Virtualization Tech Day 2011 - Updates Willie Peng Assistant Director, Infrastructure Services Information Technology California State University, Fullerton Infrastructure Track Top Trends of Technology Mobility Cloud Computing App Stores and Marketplaces Social Networks Big Data, Patterns and Analytics 2011 Top-Ten Information Technology Issues in Higher Education 1. Funding IT 2. Administrative/ERP/Information Systems 3. Teaching and Learning with Technology 4. Security 5. Mobile Technologies 6. Agility, Adaptability, and Responsiveness 7. Governance, Organization, and Leadership 8. Infrastructure/Cyberinfrastructure 9. Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity 10. Strategic Planning CSU, Fullerton Integrated Technology Strategies “The Integrated Technology Strategies are a set of interrelated information technology strategies that are visionary, collaborative, and sustainable while maintaining compliance and security.” These strategies are designed to meet the missions and goals of the University through campus-wide Information Technology Governance. Integrated Technology Strategies Sustainable Collaborative Visionary Accessible Technology Information Security CSUF Information Technology Governance Infrastructure Committee Chair: Chris Manriquez Infrastructure Virtualization, Cloud Computing, etc. Charge: The Infrastructure Task Force will advise the VP of IT on policies and processes related to IT infrastructure such as services and resources, impacts of potential upgrades including planned outages, and recommendations for future infrastructure technology investments. Members: - Division Representatives Associate Deans Campus Techs Legacy servers • major components on a server – CPU – Memory – Storage – Network Data Center : Pre rack mount Era picture obtained from google.com Colocation • That’s my space graphics obtained from google.com Today’s Server Hardware • Powerful Servers – Multiple sockets • Multi-core/socket – Gigabytes of memory – Multi-Gigabit ports NIC – 10 Gbps NIC – HD slots for RAID – Electricity/cooling hog Average System Utilization • 70 – 80 % of servers can be virtualized • Capacity planner gives us inside view of how much resource a given hardware is being used in a period of time • Hardware generally overprovisioned to handle the unknown for the lifetime of the system graphics obtained from google.com IT Virtualization : Phase I • Dual Servers (Active / Stand-by or Active / Active) • Each cluster connects to a direct attached storage • Resources are cluster bound IT Virtualization : Phase II • Increased virtual host pool – Better CPU/memory management – Increase Guest OS density/redundancy • Increase storage allocation/sharing • Reduce silos Benefits of virtualization • Reduce hardware/software cost • Easily add processor/memory/storage resource as demand increases • Standardized virtual server images, faster server provisioning • More efficient usage of resources • Provides high availability environment • De-duplication of files/memory, etc • Reduce electricity, space, green Virtualization clusters • Fullerton Campus – – – – IT Development Division IT production servers Colocation Virtual Computing Lab • @ San Francisco – Disaster Recovery Site Development Cluster • • • • Independent vCenter management 2 VM Hosts Over 100 guest VMs Tegile Zebi SS2000EP IT Production VM Cluster • 6 VM Hosts • Just under 200 Guest VMs • NetApp FAS3140 Campus Colocation VM Cluster • 4 VM Hosts • 80 Guest VMs • Dell Equallogic – 15k storage pool – 10k storage pool – 7.2 storage pool Colocation VM Hierarchy • Breakdown at College/Departmental level • Granular AD based permission to VMs – Console access – Start/Stop VMs San Francisco DR VM • Provides high availability for mission critical services – – – – Domain Infrastructure Campus Portal LMS E-Mail IT Server Virtualization Team • James O’Dell • Jay Lin • Sean Atkinson • Kevin Diep • Kun Svay • John King • Simon Goo • Dan Guzman • Marc Montaser • Johnnie Peralez • Tito Martinez • Willie Peng QUESTIONS