One Stop StorageArt Center College of DesignPasadena, CA

Theresa Zix, Senior Director of Network ServicesManny Hernandez, Manager of Network Services

Art Center Background

Undergraduate & Graduate Programs Illustration, Product Design, Film,

Transportation Design, Graphic Design

Campus 1,600 Students + 3,500 in Public Programs 500 Faculty 300 Staff

Evolving Storage Architecture2001

Decentralized with Local Storage Across Campus

2003 Centralized Technology Group with Departmental

File Servers: 200 GB Sun SAN Storage for Enterprise Data: 2 TB Network Appliance for Educational Data: 1 TB

2005 Growing Need to Reduce Administrative Overhead Multiple Servers Across Multiple Platforms Growing Demand for More Storage Lower TCO

Upgrade Objectives

Combine Scattered Storage Resources Into Fewer Centralized Resources

Centralized Management Robust Backup And Disaster Recovery Provide SAN And NAS Functionality

Cost Effective On-demand Growth Ease Of Data Migration Support Windows, OS X, And

Unix/Linux

Vendor Options Sun

Sun StorEdge 6930 for SAN StorageTek NAS Gateway

EMC Symmetrix CX500 for SAN Celera NS500 for NAS

Apple Xserve RAID Chassis: Direct-Attach Storage to an

Xserve Xsan Software: SAN Functionality to Xserve RAID

Chassis Network Appliance

FAS3020 FAS3050

Feature Set Comparison

Sun EMC Apple NetApp

Centralized Management and Reporting Tools X XActive Directory Integration with Multiple Domains

X

Transparent Volume Management XSupported by Oracle X X X XCIFS Support

X X X XFiber-Channel Support

X X X X

Average $/Gigabyte

Sun 6.20

EMC 7.40

Apple 2.00

NetApp 4.70

Gartner’s Storage Quadrant

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Completeness of Vision

NetApp 3050 Implementation Steps1. Install SAN Fabric and FC Cards (Remove

Incompatible Ones.)

2. Identify File Servers and Shared Directories.

3. Create New “Shares” and Quotas.

4. Copy Data During “Quiet Time.”

5. Re-Map End Users To New Share.

6. Perform Second Data Copy.

7. Stop Sharing Original Share.

8. Perform Final Data Copy.

Services Delivered United Enterprise

Individual Home Directories over CIFS to Students, Faculty, And Staff

Instructional/Classroom Directories with Drop Boxes Departmental Directories and “Special Projects”

Directories Central NFS Shares for UNIX Environment

Robust Backup & Recovery Departmental Data Uses Snapshots Online Backup of Enterprise Through NDMP “Hot Backup” of Oracle Database Using Oracle Module

Auto-Support 20 TB as of March, 2007

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Next Steps

HTTP Web Content via Home Directories WebDAV for Remote Mounting of Home

Directories Snapshots for Home Directories Near Line Storage for Archived Data Mirror Across WAN for Disaster Recovery Brick Level Backup of Exchange Mailboxes Cluster Environment with Additional Head

Unit

Recommendations To Use “Thin Provisioning” Have Fast Access

to Additional Disks. Confirm Firmware Versions from Vendors on

Fiber Cards and Fiber Channel Switch for Compatibility.

Maintain Separate Storage Areas to Keep Data Transactions Secure.

Confirm Compatibility with 3rd Party Tools. Group Applications Based on Availability

Requirements. Use Cross-Platform File Naming Standards. Acquire Extra Disks for Redundancy.

Thank You

Art Center College of Designwww.artcenter.edu

Theresa Zixtheresa.zix@artcenter.edu

(626) 396-2477

Manny Hernandezmanny.hernandez@artcenter.edu

(626) 396-2478