Welcometo the IT Exchange

February 22, 2011

Announcements

Agenda• MSU’s Institutional Data Policy– Don Ries, Enterprise Information

Stewardship• Future MSU Course Management System– Brendan Guenther, Virtual University

Design and Technology• Videoconferencing– Laurence Bates, College of Education

• Virtualization– JJ Streiff, Health Information Technologies

Institutional Data PolicyDon RiesEnterprise Information Stewardship

New PolicyInstitutional Data Policy

(IDP)• The IDP became effective January 1, 2011• Any questions?• Support/training going forward?• Securing Institutional Data website:

http://eis.msu.edu/sid

Institutional Data PolicyWhat and Who

• Defines Institutional Data and Confidential Data

• Sets minimum expectations for protecting the security and integrity of institutional data

• All faculty, staff and students are individually responsible

• Units responsible for implementing training and oversight procedures

Institutional Data Policy

Questions?

Moodle Preview & Limited Field Trial

February 22, 2011

Brendan GuentherDirector vuDAT

On behalf of LC&T Moodle Implementation Team

LMS Futures• Running ANGEL since 2003• Planning to run 7.4 until at least 2014– Contract allows us to continue to run ANGEL

7.4 past 2014– Limiting factor will be browser compatibility

• Expect to have two systems for a few years– Allow people time to move on their terms

• Currently looking at Moodle 2.0 • Considering also looking at Instructure Canvas

• Already considered BB9, D2L, & LON-CAPA 3

How We Got Here

“LMS Futures” committee• Led by Byron Brown• Core members from VP-LCT’s units

Tom Davis, Sev Grabski, Brendan Guenther, Matt Kolb, Ryan Yang

Met with Faculty representatives from each college

Brown Bag Presentations, ICTC, Other Venues

Timeline

Summer Limited Field Trial• Will run a controlled

pilot during US11• Selected several

courses• Each has an

alternative LMS with content already implemented there (for safety)

• Tried to represent diversity of offerings

• GEO 221 Weisenborn• CEP 820 Wolf• NUR 426 Cook• ORCBS Winslow et al• ACC 230 Jacobs• SW Stutzky

Preview System• Allows for

experimentation• NO “live” courses• Unsure if content can be

exported• Interested in feedback• IT staff welcome• …and anyone else in your

unit can join you

• Request access through DLS

• Online form will be available soon

• vuDAT blog will have an announcement when this is ready for you to use.

• Should be ready by Spring Break (+/-)

Questions for IT People• Do you want to be able to run you own Moodle?

– For a department?– For an individual course?

• Who are the important audiences for service?• If you want to innovate on the main system

– How should we handle enhancement requests?– How fast/often do you expect Moodle to change?– What transparency do you expect?– What input would you like to have?

• What data integrations are important?

Questions / News

• brendan@msu.edu

• Subscribe to feed at blog.vudat.msu.edu

VideoconferencingLaurence BatesCollege of Education

Videoconferencing (v-meets ???)

We, Me and 4G

College of EducationLaurence Bates

Transformation of HIT datacenterJJ StrieffManager of Network Infrastructure Health Information Technology

Transformation of HIT Datacenter

• 1997• 2 servers + 1 mainframe • 300 desktops• Single 5 ton AC unit• 10MB network via coax• Absolutely NO redundancy

Transformation of HIT Datacenter• 1997 - 2010• 100 physical servers (mostly Dell 1 & 2U

systems)• Almost 3000 desktops• 20+ individual UPS • 20 Ton AC unit with dual condensers • 1GB Ethernet network (from datacenter to

desktop)• Generator backup• Some redundancy but several remaining

gaps

Transformation of HIT Datacenter

• Jan 2010• Proof of concept with VMWare• Both Servers and Desktops• POC returns favorable results• July 2010 RFP released for virtualization

initiative• Jan 2011 all hardware, software and

professional services acquired.

Transformation of HIT Datacenter

• 2011• VMWare• EMC NS960 All Fibre Channel Storage• 15 HP C7000 Blades

Dual 6 core Intel Processors192GB RAM

• Liebert 14KVA UPS• Redundant 10GB fabric inside the datacenter

with redundant 10GB feeds to the campus network.

Transformation of HIT Datacenter• Overall Goals• Consolidate as many physical servers as

possible– 75%

• Convert as many as 1800 desktops to virtual– Student Labs and Clinics first– Repurposing the existing desktop– Replacing existing desktops in the future with thin

clients– Utilizing Linked-Clones as much as possible– RTO for roaming profiles

Next Event

IT ConferenceTuesday, June 7, 20118:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

visit computing.msu.edu/itconference for more information