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Mike Somerville, IT Manager, Systems Support & Chief Cloud Evangelist

vmworld August 2014

LIVING THE VIRTUAL DREAM


UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO

Catholic University founded in 1949

Total Student Enrollment: 8105 Undergraduate: 5457

Graduate/Paralegal/Law: 2648

Faculty: Full + Part-Time: 875

Administrative Staff: 435 2


UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO RANKING

#25, Undergraduate Engineering Programs (schools without doctorate) #50, Graduate Nursing Programs #65, Law Schools #14, Up-and-Coming Schools #23, Online graduate business program (supply chain management)

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#179, Best National Universities #15, Community Service Participation and Hours Served #20, ROTC Rank #39, Peace Corps Rank

#1, Undergrad. participation in study abroad in top 40 doctorate institutions


“USD BLOCK”

We Made IT: World-class Enterprise-grade

components

Cisco UCS chassis

EMC NS-480 Storage System

VMWARE ESX v4.1

Cisco Fiber Channel

Cisco Nexus 1000v

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VCE VBLOCK SYSTEM 300

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We Bought IT: (4) Cisco UCS Chassis

32 blade capacity

Dual Fiber Channel Fabric

High Availability AMP (mgmt)

10 Gbps multi-homed network

EMC: VNX-5500 (22TB Usable)

Fully Automated Storage Tiering

Cisco Nexus 1000v


VCE VBLOCK SYSTEM 300

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Upgraded IT (Aug 2013): (8) B200/M3 (half width) - 256 GB

ea.

2nd 3750 AMP (HA/redundancy)

VNX-5500 (add’l 12TB Usable)

+ F.A.S.T. + Fast Cache + PowerPath

Additional Cisco UCS Chassis license

Cisco Nexus 1000V licenses

Matrix Upgrade

ONE WEEK


MORE THAN JUST HARDWARE

A “Single Point of Success” ™ World-Class team assembles and tests

Deployment time = 1 week vs. 3 months

Code & Firmware Support Matrix Pre-Tested

Increased Availability/Reliability/Redundancy

VCE Support is Excellent

PLUS the VCE User Group

VCE Engineers are Awesome!

Customer Advocate!

Monthly Care-Log meetings

Upgrades made eas(ier)

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IT CAN DO IT ALL

A look at what is running in the Vblock Exchange 2010, Active Directory

Exchange 2013

Sharepoint 2010/2013

Hyperion

Cognos reporting

Blackboard on-line learning

Media streaming/Live Commencement

MICROS POS / Campus Cash

Main web portal : Luminis 5

LDAP

Federated Identity & Access Management

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LESSONS LEARNED

Implementation time decreased by 50% or more

New VMs allocated to business units in 75% less time

IT systems staff has time to innovate

Cloud I/O

50%++ staff time innovating!

VCOPS helps to show REAL usage

Troubleshooting “a feeling” is less relevant

ITS/Systems Team is no longer the bottleneck

Cost of infrastructure + support is less

Support from VCE can yield 100% perceived uptime

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CAPACITY AND ROOM TO GROW

2012 Number of Hosts 10

Number of VMs 166

Datastores 23

Storage 22 TB usable

2013/2014 Number of Hosts 18

Number of VMs 350

Datastores 25 (storage DRS)

Storage 35 TB usable

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EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS


WE GOT THIS!

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Transparent Success: October 2013 – FULL CAMPUS

OUTAGE “… power outage this morning throughout USD campus.

Classes cancelled until…”

Normally: 6 hours for 1 datacenter

4 datacenters in 5 hours!

With vBlock: Email flowing by 2:00pm

Classes resumed.

Revenue generating: Aux Services

Expectations Exceeded!

Students… Happy?

USD loves ITS Disaster Avoidance


VCE USER GROUP (VUG)

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The World’s Most Advanced Converged User Group For Users / By Users

VCE support

VMWORLD SFO meeting

EMCWORLD LAS meeting SWITCH DATACENTER TOUR

Sharing Successes

Making an “A” an “A+”

Solving Challenges

Make your VBLOCK ROCK!


THANK YOU!

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Questions?

Mike Somerville,

IT Manager, Systems Support

& Chief Cloud Evangelist

[email protected] cell: +1.619.414.2100

mailto:[email protected]


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