emory law school itpc presentation
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Emory Law School IT Department Background
• Approximately 200 workstations• 10 (or so) servers with Windows, Linux and one
Novell box• 720 Students/fellows/guests• 140 Faculty/Staff• 8 IT workers
– Director (law-trained, open source fan, Linux expertise)– Server Administrator (Novell MCNE, Windows MCP)– Business Analyst (Web and Linux, library background)– 3 Help desk workers– 2 Classroom Technology workers
Workstation Environment
• Windows XP SP2 in offices/work areas– Personal printer in every office– Most/All faculty with notebooks– Senior staff/traveling staff with notebooks
• Lab with 24 workstations• Six Linux-powered email kiosk machines• Seven OPAC terminals
Service Desk/Help Desk Summary
Spring 2009 Projects
Finish Novell Transition Roll out LanDesk Install Camtasia Server Transition Blogging Server to Full Production Deploy JungleDisk as disconnected user back-up
strategy
Strategic Initiatives
Co-location of servers at 1599 Storage provided by UTS Virtualization and/or Terminal Services File storage “plus” Someday/Maybe: ETL/BI initiative
Transition from Novell to Windows AD
• Almost complete• As part of the migration, moving from Admin
privileges to User privileges with domain “installer” user.
• Issues:– Missing Novell's NetStorage product– Printing not nearly as seamless in Windows as in Novell
• Benefits:– Huge speed improvement on older IBM
Thinkcentre/Netvista desktops– Due to removal of Novell client
LanDesk
• Not much to say here; at $19 per license per year this will provide significant bang for the buck.
• Should be done and in production by May.
Camtasia Relay Server
• Podcast Producer for the PC/Windows world• Faculty member will hit record on desktop in
classroom.• http://www.camtasiarelay.com• TechSmith – interfaces with other Camtasia tools• Alesis USB podcast microphones• Post-recording workflow/transcoding as key
• BlackBoard• iTunesU
• $5,000 for single-stream encoding first year
Blogging Server
• Light-weight blog server/CMS• http://blogs.law.emory.edu/• Using WordPress MU
• LAMP stack
• Runs on OpenVZ virtual machine located at 1599• See http://mu.wordpress.org/
JungleDisk as off-site backup for notebooks
http://jungledisk.com/
• Company owned by RackSpace
• Storage located on Amazon S3 cloud
• Key benefits• UI• Cross-platform• Inexpensive• Usable as a shared drive
in addition to backup solution
PricingAccount: $2.00 per month
Storage
$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
Data Transfer
$0.10 per GB of data uploaded
$0.17 per GB of data downloaded
Requests
$0.01 per 1,000 upload requests
$0.01 per 10,000 download requests
Let’s talk virtualization …
Considered broadly – includes Terminal Services
• All lab workstations are end-of-life• Many admin assistant and staff workstations are
end-of-life• All told, approximately 50 workstations that need
to be replaced– 50 * $1,000 = $50,000
• Opportunity to look at new approaches
Server-based options for end users
• Windows Terminal Services• High density• Low customization• Clustering?• User acceptance
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure• Confusing• Management issues• Many vendors, complex solutions• User acceptance• Cost
• Windows TS for now
Server-room virtualization
• OpenVZ for Linux• Like Solaris Containers for Linux• Big win: DENSITY
• OS virtualization rather than HW virtualization• Dell 2950 series machine
• 4GB RAM; dual Xeon quad-core CPU ( Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz)
Applications run under OpenVZ
• Tomcat/Clearspace• Postgres• WordPress MU blogging solution• Email alias forwarding• Jabber IM server (Realtime Ignite) – dev• Alfresco – dev• FreeNX – remote Linux desktops
OpenVZ/Virtuozzo resources
• OpenVZ is Linux only• See http://wiki.openvz.org/
• Support available for $750 a year (email only)
• Virtuozzo runs Windows and Linux• http://www.parallels.com/virtuozzo/
• Approximately $2,000 per server
Detour: promising hardware-based virtualization
Sun’s VirtualBox
Free virtualization for workstations
Runs on the usual suspects
Doesn’t require HW VM support
RDP at the machine level
iSCSI support at machine level
http://virtualbox.org/
File-Storage “Plus”
• Plain SMB-based file storage is a commodity product
• Alfresco for file-storage• Web client(s)• SMB access• FTP access• Workflow• Process Management• Web content management• Sharepoint protocol
support
http://alfresco.com/http://alfresco.org/
Someday/Maybe: ETL/BI with Pentaho
http://www.pentaho.com/