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University of WashingtonWindows and Unix Servers
IEEAF – RENU Network Design Workshop
Seattle - 30 Nov 2007
Lori Stevens, Director, Distributed SystemsBrad Greer, Manager, Unix Engineering
Jim Blankenship, Lead, Windows EngineeringEric Horst, Lead, Unix Engineering
James Morris, Lead, Windows Engineering
Agenda
OS Independent Management Items Unix Server Management Overview Windows Server Management Overview Other Topics / Discussion
OS Independent Items
Customers – Business Applications, Infrastructure services, Managed Servers
3 service recovery models: next business day 24x7 High Availability / Business resumption
Design and Architecture Assistance Policies -- UW System and Data Security
OS Independent Items
Hardware Selection and Procurement Majority x86. Dell and IBM. Most low end servers. Database, virtualization, cluster
systems larger. Remedy ARS system used for inventory Dell DRAC and IBM RSA for remote mgmt/reboots Avocent KVM console servers
4 Data Center locations 24 hour computer operations staff green computing
Networking: front door, back door, management, storage (fiber channel)
OS Independent Items
Backups – IBM Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM). Off Site Replication, Encryption
DNS and Time Services (NTP) UW Certificate Server Trouble Ticket System
Request Tracker Remedy ARS
Unix Servers
Chassis: 500 production, 100 development VMWare – 24. considering XEN. OS: Red Hat Linux 3 and 5. AIX 5. Configuration management :
Dev, Test, Eval, Production Environments Designed for Clustering and Scaling Wide KickStart for OS installs Software installs/maintenance using UW Tools
Unix Servers
Clusters Round robin and load-based DNS Migrate/balance accounts across storage
pools instead of large storage pool Account Provisioning
Subscriptions/expirations middleware Groups Manual
Unix Servers
Security MIT Keberos V SecurID Logging – both local and centralized
Unix Servers
System and Service Monitoring UW developed software (Pilot, Argus, Dash) Plan to integrate with network monitoring and
application monitoring to provide single status display.
Evaluating Nagios.
Windows Servers
Chassis: 132 production, 202 test & development VMWare – 4 servers running multiple instances OS: Windows 2000 and 2003 Configuration management :
Build Process.
Windows Servers
Clusters IBM Websphere Load Balancer for Web Microsoft Clustering for SQL
Account Provisioning Subscriptions/expirations middleware Groups Manual
Windows Servers
Security Three Windows Domains Logging – both local and centralized
Windows Servers
System and Service Monitoring UW developed software - Argus IBM Director. Microsoft MOM Scripts for monitoring web applications
ARS tickets (approx 750 systems)
Contacts
Lori Stevens, [email protected] Brad Greer, [email protected] Jim Blankenship, [email protected] Eric Horst, [email protected] James Morris, [email protected]
