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Business Continuity for the Course Management SystemCSG@MITSeptember 26, 2007Charles F. LeonhardtPrincipal TechnologistGeorgetown [email protected]
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The Big Picture» Course Management System usage is ever
increasing» After E-Mail and the Web-at-large infrastructure,
the CMS has been deemed our third most critical system from a BCP perspective
» Disaster Recovery testing in Fall ‘06 demonstrated that it would take >48 hours to restore the CMS at our IBM-managed warm site. This is unacceptable.
» What to do?
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System Utilization at Georgetown
Active Course Management Users by Term
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Users
SpringSummerFall
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System Utilization at Georgetown Active Course Management Sites by Term
0200400600800
1000120014001600
1998199920002001200220032004200520062007
Semester
Course Sites
SpringSummerFall
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Current Blackboard ArchitecturePoulton Data Center
Blackboard Prod Server(Sun 3800)
BackupMedia Sever
Blackboard Test Server(Sun 280R)
Sun StorEdge 6130
FC
IP
IP WAN
POU-DC-553
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Future Blackboard ArchitectureOverview
Clariion CX3-40
Clariion CX3-40
Poulton Data Center Virginia Data Center
MP-1620 MP-1620
Celerra NS40G
SAN Copy
Celerra Replicator
Blackboard Application Servers(Sun T2000)
BackupMedia Sever
Celerra NS40G
FC
IP
EDL 4100 EDL 4100
EDL Replication
FC SwitchPowerPath
NFS Fileshare
IP WAN
Blackboard App Servers(Sun T2000)
Blackboard DB Server
(Sun T2000)
FC Switch
Blackboard App Servers(Sun T2000)
BlackboardDB Server
(Sun T2000)\
NFS Fileshare
NFS Fileshare
BlackboardDB Server
(Sun T2000)
Load BalancerLoad Balancer
TEST PROD
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Future Architecture (simplified, production environment only)
Clariion CX3-40
Poulton Data Center
Celerra NS40G
Blackboard Application Servers(Sun T2000)
BackupMedia Sever
FC
IP
FC SwitchPowerPath
NFS Fileshare
BlackboardDB Server
(Sun T2000)
Load Balancer
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Current Blackboard Component Diagram
Apache Mod_perl
Tomcat sTunnel
App & DB Server
OracleBb
Snapshot
Backup Media Server
Netbackup
Mainframe
SIS
Encrypted Backup
FTP
GeorgetownUNIVERSITY
Future Blackboard Component Diagram
Apache Mod_perl
Tomcat sTunnel
App Server
Apache Mod_perl
Tomcat sTunnel
App Server
OracleBb
Snapshot
DB Server
NAS
NFS Share Bb content
Backup Media Server
Netbackup
Mainframe
SIS
Encrypted Backup
FTP
Unencrypted DB
SNFS
Unencrypted Backup