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Business Continuity for the Course Management System. CSG@MIT September 26, 2007 Charles F. Leonhardt Principal Technologist Georgetown University leonhardt@georgetown.edu. The Big Picture. Course Management System usage is ever increasing
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Business Continuity for the Course Management System CSG@MIT September 26, 2007 Charles F. Leonhardt Principal Technologist Georgetown University leonhardt@georgetown.edu
The Big Picture • Course Management System usage is ever increasing • After E-Mail and the Web-at-large infrastructure, the CMS has been deemed our third most critical system from a BCP perspective • Disaster Recovery testing in Fall ‘06 demonstrated that it would take >48 hours to restore the CMS at our IBM-managed warm site. This is unacceptable. • What to do?
Current Blackboard Architecture Poulton Data Center Blackboard Prod Server (Sun 3800) Blackboard Test Server (Sun 280R) Sun StorEdge 6130 POU-DC-553 FC IP IP WAN Backup Media Sever
Future Blackboard ArchitectureOverview Poulton Data Center Virginia Data Center Clariion CX3-40 EDL 4100 EDL 4100 Clariion CX3-40 EDL Replication IP WAN MP-1620 MP-1620 SAN Copy PowerPath FC Switch Celerra Replicator Backup Media Sever FC Switch Celerra NS40G Celerra NS40G NFS Fileshare NFS Fileshare NFS Fileshare Blackboard App Servers (Sun T2000) Blackboard Application Servers (Sun T2000) Blackboard App Servers (Sun T2000) Blackboard DB Server (Sun T2000) Blackboard DB Server (Sun T2000)\ Blackboard DB Server (Sun T2000) FC TEST PROD IP Load Balancer Load Balancer
Future Architecture (simplified, production environment only) Poulton Data Center Clariion CX3-40 PowerPath FC Switch Backup Media Sever Celerra NS40G NFS Fileshare Blackboard Application Servers (Sun T2000) Blackboard DB Server (Sun T2000) FC IP Load Balancer
Netbackup Backup Media Server Current Blackboard Component Diagram Oracle Bb Snapshot SIS Mainframe Apache Mod_perl Tomcat sTunnel App & DB Server Encrypted Backup FTP
Oracle Bb Snapshot DB Server Netbackup Backup Media Server Apache Apache Mod_perl Mod_perl Tomcat Tomcat sTunnel sTunnel NFS Share Bb content NAS App Server App Server Future Blackboard Component Diagram SIS Mainframe Encrypted Backup FTP Unencrypted DB SNFS Unencrypted Backup