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Registry Infrastructure Transformation

Learn about Nominet's shift in infrastructure to elevate resilience, virtualization, and disaster recovery capabilities for their core customer systems. Discover how they seamlessly transition services and ensure high hardware utilization through automation and agile practices.

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Registry Infrastructure Transformation

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  1. Registry Infrastructure Transformation April 2014 Brett Carr

  2. Introduction • Nominet (Who/Why/What) • Nominet Core Customer Systems • Legacy Infrastructure • Requirements • Datacenters • Virtualisation and Storage • Inter site Recovery • Major DR

  3. Nominet Who/Why/What • .uk Registry • Non Profit organisation with Charitable foundation • Moving into GTLD markets • Registrations within.uk • EBERO

  4. Nominet Core Customer Systems • EPP • Automaton • DAC • Whois • DNS • Web based Services

  5. Legacy Infrastructure • Own datacenter within Oxford HQ • Backup DR Center within a Colo in Kent • Network prescence (Transit and Peering) in THN • 99% Physical Hardware (lots of old kit) • Mixture of Linux/Solaris • Small virtualization environment

  6. Requirements • Agile rapid deployment of new servers/services • Regular transition of services between DC’s • Rapid failover between DC’s in the event of a failure. • High utilization of hardware • Automation • Service Orientated Monitoring

  7. Datacenters • DC1 Slough • DC2 Acton • DC3 Geneva

  8. Virtualisation and Storage • 99% of new Infrastructure is virtualised (Vmware) • Following services are physical Oracle Databases Windows Domain Controller (1 Per DC) • HP 3Par Storage Arrays at DC1 and DC2, synch replication

  9. Inter Site Recovery • All Virtual machines replicated between DC’s (via Storage Replication) • VMWare Site recovery manager used for recovery and transition

  10. Monitoring • Vcenter Operations • Vmware Hyperic • HP IMC • Microsoft SCOM • Servicenow

  11. Configuration Management • Puppet Enterprise • Redhat Satellite • SCCM

  12. Major DR • DC3 (Geneva) will contain core servicesDBEPPWhoisDNS/DNSSEC Provisioning

  13. Questions/Comments

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