Library Replacement
ITS has begun looking into replacing our current backup eL700 robot library. We are currently comparing the different vendor products to see which one will suite ITS needs best. This is a very important decision as the library is how we clone all of our full savesets for offsite disaster recovery copies of production data. ITS is investigating the different achievable throughputs to assist us in making the correct decision, including growth considerations.
Backup Environment
ITS has purchased two new servers to license them as additional Legato storage nodes. Theses additional storage nodes and licenses will enable us to push more backup clients simultanesly as we will increase our server parallelism value from 64 simultaneous backup streams of savesets to 128 streams. This allows ITS to consider such implementations as allowing more clients to start at the same time, which should decrease our complete datacenter backup time to completion.
Graduation
In order to ensure the success of the graduation streaming media initiative, ITS identified network congestion issues associated with live streaming. Once we identified these, we took the necessary steps to corrent these congestion locations. The first step was creating a new isolated network in front of our main firewall, but inside the perimeter firewall. We then moved the primary network connection to the new network. We also created a new isolated network to facilitate the streaming mount points for archived media, and added this network to the Celerra. The access list for IP address that are allowed to connect to the Celerra streaming media share was modified to grant the new IP address on the new isolated network to see the archived media files.
IMSP Tools
In order to facilitate the retirement of the IMSP server that stores user options and address books for Mulberry users, ITS was asked to provide a web enabled tool that users to authenticate to and export their Mulberry address book that is stored on the IMSP server. ITS has to first establish a file transfer mechanism (SSH), and installed the software for the transfer mechanism. ITS then developed a tool that transfers an authenticated users configuration directory, which includes the address book, and parses for valid email addresses. Once the parse is complete, it then either does direct MySQL insert statements and loads a users VUwebmail address book, or it generates two files, one that a user can import directly into Microsoft Outlook. The decision on what output is generated is based on user selection after authentication.