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Storage Strategies atThe University of Iowa
May 12, 2010
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Central File Storage
•Individuals: 1-5 GB
•Departments: 1 GB per FTE
Base Entitlement
•Asynchronous replication to identical system at remote data center
4 Hour Recovery Objectives
•< 1 hour of downtime in the past year
99.97% Uptime
•33K of 37K eligible users
89% Participation
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The Effect
“One price fits all” network file storage
Lower-cost network file storage
Lowest-cost bare server storage
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Storage TiersHigh Performance Enterprise SAN
Central File Storage
Low Cost SAN
Target Users Centrally managed servers
End users or distributed servers
Distributed servers
Funding Model Centrally funded Base entitlement, pay for more
Pay for use
Monthly Price per Gigabyte
N/A $0.12 – $0.25 $0.03 – $0.14
http://its.uiowa.edu/spa/storage/
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Moving Forward
Interviewed partners,
peers
Categorized storage
Analyzing data
Storage Services Roadmap
• 10 peer institutions• 17 campus units• 2.7 petabytes of campus storage
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Campus Storage by Provider
Information Technology
Services42%
College of Engineering27%
Institute for Clinical and Translational
Science12%
College of Public Health
8%
UI Libraries4%
Other7%
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Storage by University Mission
Administration & Overhead
35%
Research51%
Teaching11%
Public Service4%
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Storage by Access Type
Backup72%
Online24%
Archive4%
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Issues
Research storage• Fragmented• Poor data protection
Backup storage• Inefficient• No central service
Archival storage• Few options• Shifts to online or
backup storage
Cost
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Possible Next Steps
Identify and promote research solutions
Build central backup service
Build, promote archival solutions
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Lessons Learned
Valuable data
Invaluable process
Built on existing
community