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UC Berkeley EECS IT Infrastructure Report May 2006

Summary of accomplishments, staff changes, network upgrades, storage updates, and identity management in the UC Berkeley EECS department for May 2006. Check out the full report at iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/reports.

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UC Berkeley EECS IT Infrastructure Report May 2006

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  1. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Berkeley ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES CNIL May 2006 ReportThese slides found at http://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/reports/

  2. 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, 802.11a, 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)

  3. 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 802.11a 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

  4. 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

  5. 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 • Equipment at end of life • 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

  6. 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

  7. 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 user@eecs.berkeley.edu with user@berkeley.edu • 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)

  8. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Berkeley ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCES Dropped previously proposed $5/month windows charge

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