Transcript Data Center outsourced

Outsourcing the Data Center
Ingvi Stígsson
Why new Data Center?
● Old Data Center not secure enough
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Wooden ceiling
Has water pipes
● Too long wait for a new building
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The need has been discussed for many
years
● Too expensive to upgrade the old
building
New Data Center
● External partner: Basis
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ISO 27001 Certified
PCI-DSS
Hosts many companies
● Alþingi owns the hardware
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Has it own “server rack”
The migration planning
● The planning and preparation took some
months
Deciding which hardware should be moved
Move servers into virtual servers
Consolidate data that should be moved
onto one SAN
o Connection
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Connections
● Between Alþingi and Basis
Primary connection through “Dark Fiber”
(1Gb/s)
o Secondary connection through IP 100Mb/s
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● Internet connection via Basis
Traffic from January
Storage Area Network
● EMC (26TB)-> IBM (16TB)
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Storage solution from EMC was left behind
New storage solution from IBM installed
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All servers using SAN need to talk to IBM SAN
All data relevant data moved to IBM SAN
solution (8TB)
● EMC still used for security cameras
recordings (12TB)
Servers
● Before moving to Basis
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Moving most servers Xen (virtual server)
VMware virtual servers moved to Xen
● 8 physicals servers moved
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Sun x1
Xen (SuperMicro) x1 with 36 virtual servers
Linux x5
Windows x1
Servers left behind
● IBM DataBlade Center
● Some physical servers
● Mostly related to
Security (video servers, access servers,
lights servers)
o Encoder for live broadcasting and VOD
o Audio recording
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Also left behind
● Telephone station
● Network switches
● The fiber cable connection
The moving plan
● Saturday
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Start at 6:00 - shutdown servers and start packing
Truck arrives at 7:30
Police escort at 8:30
Unpacking starts at 9:00, servers booted when
ready
Testing if everything works at 11:00
● Sunday
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Employees at Basis and Alþingi should be standby
Problems
● Sun server does not boot normally
Problems
● Sun server does not boot normally
● Xen does not boot normally
Problems
● Sun server does not boot normally
● Xen does not boot normally
● Paths to EMC still in the configuration
Experience so far
● Mostly running smoothly
● One major incident in May
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Earthquake
Problems in one aluminum smelter
Leads to power surge in the national power
system
Electricity incident
Power
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Diesel
generator
UPS
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Electricity incident
Power
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Diesel
generator
UPS
Power
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Diesel
generator
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Power
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Diesel
generator
UPS
Thank you for listening
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