The presentation will provide insight into the decision to move from a fibre channel SAN solution, the resulting performance metrics and financial savings seen by Marshall University. Presented at The Ohio Higher Education Computing Council (OHECC) March 23, 2011

Aractingi, Edward

Griggs, David

Taylor, Allen

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Marshall University

Marshall UniversityMarshall Digital ScholarIT Research Information Technology1-1-2011Adopting Virtualized 10GBE Ethernet ISCSI SANfor Mission Critical ApplicationsEdward AractingiMarshall University, aractingi1@marshall.eduAllen TaylorMarshall University, taylor@marshall.eduDavid GriggsFollow this and additional works at: http://mds.marshall.edu/it_researchPart of the Databases and Information Systems Commons, Higher Education AdministrationCommons, OS and Networks Commons, and the Systems Architecture CommonsThis Presentation is brought to you for free and open access by the Information Technology at Marshall Digital Scholar. It has been accepted forinclusion in IT Research by an authorized administrator of Marshall Digital Scholar. For more information, please contact zhangj@marshall.edu.Recommended CitationAractingi, Edward, Allen Taylor, and David Griggs. "Adopting Virtualized 10GBE Ethernet ISCS." The Ohio Higher EducationComputing Coun. Cincinnati. 23 Mar. 2011. Lecture.Migration from Fiber Channel SAN to ISCSI SAN At Marshall University Introduction Edward Aractingi Marshall University Assistant Director IT Infrastructure aractingi1 @ marshall.edu twitter.com/earactingi Marshall University Huntington, West Virginia Founded 1837 14000 Students 2000 Employees 100 IT staff    www.marshall.edu  twitter.com/marshallu  Data Center Dell EMC CX3-80 Fiber Channel SAN  250 Servers  -  7 SysAdmins   Thanks for Phil Sergent for his assistance on this 3d model Some Stats  Physical Production Server 42% VM Production Server 58% Total Physical vs Virtual (production servers) Physical ProductionServerVM Production ServerMore stats  Windows 56% Redhat 44% Percentage of Production machines per operating system WindowsRedhatChallenges Complexity of managing FC SAN Cost of connecting additional hosts End of life approaching Cost of support renewal Cost of additional licensing  Objectives More cost effective storage platform Simple and cheap method to add hosts Flexible environment with mixed disks Full features, no additional licensing Keep power utilization in mind After  Power Utilization  Thanks for Phil Sergent and Eric Wolfe for their assistance in capturing the data behind this graph Power vs Storage  Benefits  Current and Future Plans Two more arrays to fire up soon Plan to standardize on 10g for most storage arrays  

Adopting Virtualized 10GBE Ethernet ISCSI SAN for Mission Critical Applications

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Adopting Virtualized 10GBE Ethernet ISCSI SAN for Mission Critical Applications

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