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Re-thinking infrastructure. Unassuming Assumptions. Mike Daigle Ramon Kagan Ian Lumb Charles Porter. Agenda. Background Where we were Desires New issues Proposed solution Where we are Lessons learned Future considerations. Background.
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Re-thinking infrastructure Unassuming Assumptions Mike Daigle Ramon Kagan Ian Lumb Charles Porter
Agenda • Background • Where we were • Desires • New issues • Proposed solution • Where we are • Lessons learned • Future considerations
65+ servers coming in - 2nd year of full refresh • Previous year was painful • Showed our bottlenecks and process setbacks • New central NAS/SAN coming same time • Tried and tested ways were antiquated • Racking, cable management, OS builds • Heating and power concerns taking increasing priority
Console Network YorkU Data Network Public IPs
1 Storage Management 10 Console
Firewall VLAN Storage VLAN Console Service VLAN
of Management Storage Service 1 2
Console Network Management Network Private IPs YorkU Data Network Public IPs Ethernet SAN Private IPs
Other Lessons Learned • Discipline and change management • Sizing is hard to estimate • Budget limits your options and drives alternative decisions and/or plans • Working collaboratively can work!
Image/PXE/net booting for Windows, Solaris x64 and maybe others • Physical separation of the service/storage • Migration may be painful but a result of budget limitations • 10GigE and jumbo frames on the storage network