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Brown University's Disaster Recovery in the Cloud with CUMULUS

Learn how Brown University utilizes CUMULUS for disaster recovery in the cloud, including primary and replica storage, data backups, and disaster recovery procedures. Discover how Brown University uses dedicated VMware resource pools with centralized secure networking, virtual machines hosting, and disaster recovery for autonomous departments.

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Brown University's Disaster Recovery in the Cloud with CUMULUS

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  1. Brown University Utilizing CUMULUS for Disaster Recovery in the Cloud

  2. Nancy MagersAssociate Director of Disaster Recovery and Storage Service Primary Storage  Replica Storage Data Backups Disaster Recovery Contracts Disaster Recovery Sites Disaster Recovery Procedures Disaster Recovery Drills

  3. How is Brown Using CUMULUS Dedicated VMWare resource pools with centralized secure  networking (firewall & VPN) • Some Virtual Machines Hosting • Disaster Recovery for Autonomous Departments • Advancement  • Alumni.brown.edu • Gifts.brown.edu • Advance.brown.edu • Facilities • FAMIS (facilities management information system) FY12-Q1

  4. DR Step 1 is Business Continuity Planning • Identify your business drivers • Establish commitment from the top that protecting IT services is important.    • Have the business owners establish the priority of the recovery of the application?    • What is the value of the service and what is the impact of it not being available • KualiReady from Kuali Foundation Higher Ed tool for BC Planning.

  5. Prioritize & Plan • Prioritize your portfolio & Set your goals • RTO - Time to recovery • RPO - Acceptable data loss • MAD - Maximum Allowable Downtime

  6. Plan Your Strategy CUMULUS Planning Visio • Management Access • Details source (OSHEAN Member) Firewall / VPN • Details Network connectivity of VCenter environment • NAT/PAT • Source ESX Hosts • Target VReplicator, VCenter & ESX • Identifies resonsible owner for subscribers Network environment • Member Access • Details VMWare source and target host information • Identifies responsible owner for subscribers VMWare environment • Security • Details OSHEAN ACL's and Firewall Policies

  7. Network Service Planning and Design Global Traffic Manager  - Brown Environment CNAMES A Records Services and Servers VLAN's Network Ports

  8. Get Your Data There • Quest VReplicator • Snapshots ( Requires some local storage) • Data Change Rate Effects Frequency • Testing helps ID the correct frequency.  • This affects RPO! Recovery planning • Who do you need (essential personnel) • DBA/Systems • Network / F5 Mgmt • Databases Services - Semi Automated • IP Change Scripts • GTM - Management •  Script your recovery

  9. Test Planning • What will your testing strategy be? • Dev/QA Only? • Frequency • Success criteria • Track your metrics Maintain Your Environment • Replication Monitoring and Reporting • Management VM • SSH/Putty • Application Management Tools • Patching

  10. Deming knows best

  11. On with the show....  WebEX Recording with commentary by Mike and Nancy

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