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Alan RichardsSharePoint MVP
Cost Cutting Using IT
Information Systems Manager @ West Hatch High School
Worked in education for over 17 years
Led teams in the early adoption of Microsoft systems
Regular presenter at events
SharePoint MVP
About Me
Virtualisation
Power Management
Paperless School
VDI
Topics
Full Microsoft Hyper-V virtualisation You already paid for it
Simple to manage
Licensing
Standard – 1 free licence
Enterprise – 4 free licences
Datacentre – Unlimited licences
Virtualisation
2 x Quad Core CPU72Gb Ram300Gb Mirrored Drives10 NIC’s
12TB Storage - iSCSI
Electricity 24 physical servers to 9 physical servers
Cooling Less servers to cool has cut down on our need to increase our cooling facilities
Maintenance Less physical servers to maintain Virtually no downtime
Responsive Easily install new server Easily increase resources available to a server
Virtualisation
£12,000
Power Management
3rd Party Software
PC Power Down
Schedule windows for shut down & start up
Setup individual windows for regular or one-off
settings
£14,000
Paperless School
1.5 million sheets of paper a year
Printing costs for letters, reports
Postage costs for letters, reports
Admin time
Increase availability of data
Data analysis
Easier than paper
Export to Excel
Paperless School
Drop down day for students
All students, along with parents, attend interview
with teacher
Fill in an online form
Form is emailed to student and parent
Data is all saved to SharePoint 2010 Academic Review Day
Paperless School
Create lists on our SharePoint farm
Office InfoPath 2010 to create the form
SharePoint Designer 2010 to create the
workflows
Academic Review Day First form to be converted, September 2010
Absence Requests Full custom approval process
All stored on SharePoint
Staff can view their requests
VET (Visit, Events, Trip) Full custom approval process
All stored on SharePoint
Staff can view their requests
Homework All set online
Student and parent can see homework set through SharePoint
HOD’s, SLT, Learning Managers get custom views to monitor
Paperless School
Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Thin client computing
Windows 7 desktops
Pooled or personal
2 x Windows 2008 R2 servers VDI RDP redirection
VDI Virtual host
Storage NAS, SAN or local
Depends on implementation
Thin Clients Wyse C10LE
VDI Gateway Remote access to desktops from Internet
VDI
