1. Australian Institute of Marine Science Jukka Pirhonen

2. Cape Ferguson

4. Current Environment Vsphere 4 Enterprise (ESX(i) 4.0) Two sites – Townsville & Perth Dell 2950 & R710 physical hosts Local storage and EMC SAN Brocade 4100 4Gbps FC switches Cisco 65xx and 3560(E) switches

5. Perth 1 Host – Dell 2950 4 virtual machines 2 networks – management & internal 58 GB local storage 12 TB iSCSI (EMC AX4-5) 1 physical server

6. Townsville (Cape Ferguson/JCU DR site) 2 clusters – general & DMZ 6 Host (4 x Dell 2950 & 2 x R710) 42 virtual machines 3 networks – internal, management, DMZ 360 GB local storage 1400 GB SAN storage allocated 20 TB in EMC CX3-20 storage array 6 TB on EMC CX-300 storage array 29 physical servers

7. Deployment Virtual machines are used unless support issues (Oracle), time critical or dedicate i/o required (ntp, Call Mgr, Net management) Two physically separate clusters for DMZ and internal hosts Two networks - management & VM network Two physical NICs on two separate switches multiple VLANs

8. Deployment

9. Troubleshooting, Support & Management vSphere client Vmware Tools DRAC - physical hosts Celerra Manager SAN Web interface -> Brocade FC switches CLI for Cisco switches Nagios for alerts Cacti for traffic monitoring

10. Obstacles/Issues Predicting storage requirements Keeping up to date Reactive not proactive Standardisation

11. Plans For the Future New computer room – increase in capacity & standard Ongoing virtualization of physical hosts Fault tolerance and high availability Distributed virtual switching 10G compatible distribution switches (3560E) Options for a new data centre core switch (2010/11) Investigating Nexus product range Fibre channel over Ethernet??