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University of Washington Windows and Unix Servers

University of Washington Windows and Unix Servers. IEEAF – RENU Network Design Workshop Seattle - 30 Nov 2007

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University of Washington Windows and Unix Servers

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  1. University of WashingtonWindows and Unix Servers IEEAF – RENU Network Design Workshop Seattle - 30 Nov 2007 Lori Stevens, Director, Distributed SystemsBrad Greer, Manager, Unix EngineeringJim Blankenship, Lead, Windows EngineeringEric Horst, Lead, Unix EngineeringJames Morris, Lead, Windows Engineering

  2. Agenda • OS Independent Management Items • Unix Server Management Overview • Windows Server Management Overview • Other Topics / Discussion

  3. OS Independent Items • Customers – Business Applications, Infrastructure services, Managed Servers • 3 service recovery models: • next business day • 24x7 • High Availability / Business resumption • Design and Architecture Assistance • Policies -- UW System and Data Security

  4. OS Independent Items • Hardware Selection and Procurement • Majority x86. Dell and IBM. • Most low end servers. Database, virtualization, cluster systems larger. • Remedy ARS system used for inventory • Dell DRAC and IBM RSA for remote mgmt/reboots • Avocent KVM console servers • 4 Data Center locations • 24 hour computer operations staff • green computing • Networking: front door, back door, management, storage (fiber channel)

  5. OS Independent Items • Backups – IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). Off Site Replication, Encryption • DNS and Time Services (NTP) • UW Certificate Server • Trouble Ticket System • Request Tracker • Remedy ARS

  6. Unix Servers • Chassis: 500 production, 100 development • VMWare – 24. considering XEN. • OS: Red Hat Linux 3 and 5. AIX 5. • Configuration management : • Dev, Test, Eval, Production Environments • Designed for Clustering and Scaling Wide • KickStart for OS installs • Software installs/maintenance using UW Tools

  7. Unix Servers • Clusters • Round robin and load-based DNS • Migrate/balance accounts across storage pools instead of large storage pool • Account Provisioning • Subscriptions/expirations middleware • Groups • Manual

  8. Unix Servers • Security • MIT Keberos V • SecurID • Logging – both local and centralized

  9. Unix Servers • System and Service Monitoring • UW developed software (Pilot, Argus, Dash) • Plan to integrate with network monitoring and application monitoring to provide single status display. • Evaluating Nagios.

  10. Windows Servers • Chassis: 132 production, 202 test & development • VMWare – 4 servers running multiple instances • OS: Windows 2000 and 2003 • Configuration management : • Build Process.

  11. Windows Servers • Clusters • IBM Websphere Load Balancer for Web • Microsoft Clustering for SQL • Account Provisioning • Subscriptions/expirations middleware • Groups • Manual

  12. Windows Servers • Security • Three Windows Domains • Logging – both local and centralized

  13. Windows Servers • System and Service Monitoring • UW developed software - Argus • IBM Director. • Microsoft MOM • Scripts for monitoring web applications

  14. ARS tickets (approx 750 systems)

  15. Contacts • Lori Stevens, lrs@washington.edu • Brad Greer, brad@washington.edu • Jim Blankenship, jblank@washington.edu • Eric Horst, erich@washington.edu • James Morris, jmorris@washington.edu

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