Emory Law School ITPC Presentation
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Emory Law School IT Department Background
• Approximately 200 workstations• 10 (or so) servers with Windows, Linux and one
Novell box• 720 Students/fellows/guests• 140 Faculty/Staff• 8 IT workers
– Director (law-trained, open source fan, Linux expertise)– Server Administrator (Novell MCNE, Windows MCP)– Business Analyst (Web and Linux, library background)– 3 Help desk workers– 2 Classroom Technology workers
Workstation Environment
• Windows XP SP2 in offices/work areas– Personal printer in every office– Most/All faculty with notebooks– Senior staff/traveling staff with notebooks
• Lab with 24 workstations• Six Linux-powered email kiosk machines• Seven OPAC terminals
Spring 2009 Projects
Finish Novell Transition Roll out LanDesk Install Camtasia Server Transition Blogging Server to Full Production Deploy JungleDisk as disconnected user back-up
strategy
Strategic Initiatives
Co-location of servers at 1599 Storage provided by UTS Virtualization and/or Terminal Services File storage “plus” Someday/Maybe: ETL/BI initiative
Transition from Novell to Windows AD
• Almost complete• As part of the migration, moving from Admin
privileges to User privileges with domain “installer” user.
• Issues:– Missing Novell's NetStorage product– Printing not nearly as seamless in Windows as in Novell
• Benefits:– Huge speed improvement on older IBM
Thinkcentre/Netvista desktops– Due to removal of Novell client
LanDesk
• Not much to say here; at $19 per license per year this will provide significant bang for the buck.
• Should be done and in production by May.
Camtasia Relay Server
• Podcast Producer for the PC/Windows world• Faculty member will hit record on desktop in
classroom.• http://www.camtasiarelay.com• TechSmith – interfaces with other Camtasia tools• Alesis USB podcast microphones• Post-recording workflow/transcoding as key
• BlackBoard• iTunesU
• $5,000 for single-stream encoding first year
Blogging Server
• Light-weight blog server/CMS• http://blogs.law.emory.edu/• Using WordPress MU
• LAMP stack
• Runs on OpenVZ virtual machine located at 1599• See http://mu.wordpress.org/
JungleDisk as off-site backup for notebooks
http://jungledisk.com/
• Company owned by RackSpace
• Storage located on Amazon S3 cloud
• Key benefits• UI• Cross-platform• Inexpensive• Usable as a shared drive
in addition to backup solution
PricingAccount: $2.00 per month
Storage
$0.15 per GB-Month of storage used
Data Transfer
$0.10 per GB of data uploaded
$0.17 per GB of data downloaded
Requests
$0.01 per 1,000 upload requests
$0.01 per 10,000 download requests
Let’s talk virtualization …
Considered broadly – includes Terminal Services
• All lab workstations are end-of-life• Many admin assistant and staff workstations are
end-of-life• All told, approximately 50 workstations that need
to be replaced– 50 * $1,000 = $50,000
• Opportunity to look at new approaches
Server-based options for end users
• Windows Terminal Services• High density• Low customization• Clustering?• User acceptance
• Virtual Desktop Infrastructure• Confusing• Management issues• Many vendors, complex solutions• User acceptance• Cost
• Windows TS for now
Server-room virtualization
• OpenVZ for Linux• Like Solaris Containers for Linux• Big win: DENSITY
• OS virtualization rather than HW virtualization• Dell 2950 series machine
• 4GB RAM; dual Xeon quad-core CPU ( Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz)
Applications run under OpenVZ
• Tomcat/Clearspace• Postgres• WordPress MU blogging solution• Email alias forwarding• Jabber IM server (Realtime Ignite) – dev• Alfresco – dev• FreeNX – remote Linux desktops
OpenVZ/Virtuozzo resources
• OpenVZ is Linux only• See http://wiki.openvz.org/
• Support available for $750 a year (email only)
• Virtuozzo runs Windows and Linux• http://www.parallels.com/virtuozzo/
• Approximately $2,000 per server
Detour: promising hardware-based virtualization
Sun’s VirtualBox
Free virtualization for workstations
Runs on the usual suspects
Doesn’t require HW VM support
RDP at the machine level
iSCSI support at machine level
http://virtualbox.org/
File-Storage “Plus”
• Plain SMB-based file storage is a commodity product
• Alfresco for file-storage• Web client(s)• SMB access• FTP access• Workflow• Process Management• Web content management• Sharepoint protocol
support
http://alfresco.com/http://alfresco.org/