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University of Bristol File Consolidation Project

This solution architecture project by Dell Professional Services aims to meet the University of Bristol's requirements for homogenous storage management, robust file storage, and efficient test data creation and corruption recovery. It proposes an enterprise storage architecture based on SAN and NAS technologies to improve critical service recovery and streamline file management.

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University of Bristol File Consolidation Project

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  1. University of BristolFile Consolidation Project Marc Nevitt – Solution Architect Dell Professional Services Dell Confidential

  2. Agenda • Define Strategic Milestones and Business Requirements generating proposed Infrastructure • Requirements of the University • How does the proposed Solution meet requirements? • Present Outline of Proposed Infrastructure • How proposed architecture will meet Strategic requirements • Information about proposed solution components • Expansion & Upgrade Scenarios Dell Confidential

  3. Strategic Milestones • Critical Service Recovery • Decrease Time taken to recover Critical Services • Reduce critical system potential data loss window • Homogenous Storage Management Strategy • Easier to replicate multiple node data • Allows for more productive management • Robust & Flexible File Store • Under-graduate & Staff with file capacity provision • Potential to manage departmental data • Test & Development Data and Corruption Recovery • Provide convenient means of creating Test Data • Rapid means of recovering from ‘logical’ corruption Dell Confidential

  4. Critical Service Availability Augment current DR Plan Third Party providing ‘Recovery Asset’ within four hours Represents only the beginning of a potentially lengthy recovery process Sharp Reduction in time to recover Critical Services Provide replica of data on disk in another location, via CLARiiON Faster than restoring from tape backup Three Failure Scenarios Computing Asset Failure Corrupt Application Recovery Site level Recovery Production ‘State’ Recovery via ‘Synchronous’ Replication Data generated between last back up & time of asset failure is unrecoverable Need to recover data as close to the state in which the production asset failed. Strategic Milestones Dell Confidential

  5. Strategic Milestones 2.Homogenous Storage Management Strategy • Enables Critical Service Replication, via MirrorView • Far more productive than Host/Local Replication • Overcomes limited recovery computing asset • Limitations to ‘Local Attach’ storage management paradigm • Highly Proliferated Environment can perpetuate Management Productivity issues: • Hardware Limitations • Disk is directly annexed to the processing node, • The management of storage is directly related to the configuration state of a specific system. • Lack of predictable storage management Dell Confidential

  6. Strategic Milestones 3.Robust & Flexible File Store • Two Distinct Areas of File Storage • Undergraduate & Staff File Storage • Theoretical maximum requirement of ten terabytes • Realistic estimation between two and five terabytes • Departmental Administrative Data • Management of Departmental Administrative Files currently resides within the department itself • Environment dispersed over a relatively wide geographical area. • Represents a high asset count that would impose real management boundaries if centrally administered. • Hyper – Consolidation • Resolution of both file storage area’s to a level of asset that is within acceptable management parameters • File Storage Provision made highly available & predictable to manage. Dell Confidential

  7. Strategic Milestones 4.Test & Development Data and Corruption Recovery • A convenient means of generating data for Test and Development purposes is a high priority for the University. • Currently facilitated by the restoration of backup to the test & development computing asset. • Slow restoration of Data from backup is a major factor in the time taken to perform a T&D activity • T&D activity, by it nature, precipitates the risk of Corruption and the need to recover to a base state. • Restoring to base configuration is facilitated by tape; slow. • The use of replicated data with SNAP SHOTS & CLONES • Shorten the time taken to perform a T&D activity but also allow a wider scope of Test & Development. Dell Confidential

  8. Proposed Architecture Enterprise Storage Architecture • Based on two principle storage technologies • Storage Area Networking (SAN) • DELL | EMC CLARiiON CX providing core storage infrastructure. • Deployed into two sites • Synchronous Replication delivering ‘Production State’ recovery • Detach Storage management from Computing device and resolve into a predictable administrative paradigm • Thirteen Servers to initially attach to SAN • High Specification Network Attached Storage (NAS) • DELL | EMC Celerra Network Attach Storage • Transparent integration into Active Directory & NFS • High Specification File Serving Device capable of ‘Hyper-Consolidating’ asset Dell Confidential

  9. Proposed Solution – Dell / EMC CLARiiON CX700 Dell Confidential

  10. Proposed Solution Dell Confidential

  11. Investment Protection Dell Confidential

  12. Gold-Level Premier Enterprise Support Service Dell | EMC Gold Support Provides: • 24x7 High Level engineer to engineer support with direct access to Gold Queue • Technical Account Management Team managed escalations and reporting • 24x7 4-Hour On-site1 Support • Case management services through Enterprise Expert Center • Remote Software & Storage Support – Unlimited Resolutions • Storage System Remote Monitoring • Customer ability to define your call priority • Coordinated seamless support between Dell and key 3rd party providers • Change notification Optional Upgrades • Customer Training • On-site Engineer • On-site Parts • Flexible Platinum Enterprise Services 1Restrictions apply Dell Confidential

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