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One Stop Storage Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA

One Stop Storage Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA. Theresa Zix, Senior Director of Network Services Manny Hernandez, Manager of Network Services. Art Center Background. Undergraduate & Graduate Programs Illustration, Product Design, Film, Transportation Design, Graphic Design Campus

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One Stop Storage Art Center College of Design Pasadena, CA

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  1. One Stop StorageArt Center College of DesignPasadena, CA Theresa Zix, Senior Director of Network Services Manny Hernandez, Manager of Network Services

  2. Art Center Background • Undergraduate & Graduate Programs • Illustration, Product Design, Film, Transportation Design, Graphic Design • Campus • 1,600 Students + 3,500 in Public Programs • 500 Faculty • 300 Staff

  3. Evolving Storage Architecture 2001 • Decentralized with Local Storage Across Campus 2003 • Centralized Technology Group with Departmental File Servers: 200 GB • Sun SAN Storage for Enterprise Data: 2 TB • Network Appliance for Educational Data: 1 TB 2005 • Growing Need to Reduce Administrative Overhead • Multiple Servers Across Multiple Platforms • Growing Demand for More Storage • Lower TCO

  4. Upgrade Objectives • Combine Scattered Storage Resources Into Fewer Centralized Resources • Centralized Management • Robust Backup And Disaster Recovery • Provide SAN And NAS Functionality • Cost Effective • On-demand Growth • Ease Of Data Migration • Support Windows, OS X, And Unix/Linux

  5. Vendor Options • Sun • Sun StorEdge 6930 for SAN • StorageTek NAS Gateway • EMC • Symmetrix CX500 for SAN • Celera NS500 for NAS • Apple • Xserve RAID Chassis: Direct-Attach Storage to an Xserve • Xsan Software: SAN Functionality to Xserve RAID Chassis • Network Appliance • FAS3020 • FAS3050

  6. Feature Set Comparison

  7. Average $/Gigabyte

  8. Gartner’s Storage Quadrant Ability to Execute Completeness of Vision

  9. NetApp 3050 Implementation Steps • Install SAN Fabric and FC Cards (Remove Incompatible Ones.) • Identify File Servers and Shared Directories. • Create New “Shares” and Quotas. • Copy Data During “Quiet Time.” • Re-Map End Users To New Share. • Perform Second Data Copy. • Stop Sharing Original Share. • Perform Final Data Copy.

  10. Services Delivered • United Enterprise • Individual Home Directories over CIFS to Students, Faculty, And Staff • Instructional/Classroom Directories with Drop Boxes • Departmental Directories and “Special Projects” Directories • Central NFS Shares for UNIX Environment • Robust Backup & Recovery • Departmental Data Uses Snapshots • Online Backup of Enterprise Through NDMP • “Hot Backup” of Oracle Database Using Oracle Module • Auto-Support • 20 TB as of March, 2007

  11. Storage Growth Gigabytes

  12. Next Steps • HTTP Web Content via Home Directories • WebDAV for Remote Mounting of Home Directories • Snapshots for Home Directories • Near Line Storage for Archived Data • Mirror Across WAN for Disaster Recovery • Brick Level Backup of Exchange Mailboxes • Cluster Environment with Additional Head Unit

  13. Recommendations • To Use “Thin Provisioning” Have Fast Access to Additional Disks. • Confirm Firmware Versions from Vendors on Fiber Cards and Fiber Channel Switch for Compatibility. • Maintain Separate Storage Areas to Keep Data Transactions Secure. • Confirm Compatibility with 3rd Party Tools. • Group Applications Based on Availability Requirements. • Use Cross-Platform File Naming Standards. • Acquire Extra Disks for Redundancy.

  14. Thank YouArt Center College of Designwww.artcenter.edu Theresa Zix theresa.zix@artcenter.edu (626) 396-2477 Manny Hernandez manny.hernandez@artcenter.edu (626) 396-2478

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