http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kevin.mcdonald Application Hosting, ITS, Vanderbilt University Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:42:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This is text and below is an image:   http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kevin.mcdonald/?p=34 Application Hosting, ITS, Vanderbilt University Exchange 2007 Disaster Recovery Testing continues… ITS conducted another disaster recovery test of the new Exchange 2007 environment.  The test was performed with as little preparation as possible to simulate "real world" scenarios.  The team improved on the previous timeline of events and continues to identify areas for ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kevin.mcdonald/?p=33 Virtual Tape Library Evaluation – EMC EDL ITS Storage Administration has been evaluating numerous B2D "backup-to-disk" technologies for the past year. September was spent evaluating a virtual tape library from EMC called an Enterprise Disk Library (EDL.) The purpose of this evaluation is ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kevin.mcdonald/?p=32 Microsoft Unified Communications – Proof Of Concept update ITS needed to develop a platform that brings communication convergence to the desktop to enhance/enable spontaneous communication and collaboration within and externally to Vanderbilt University. We now have forty-one users on the POC, all at varying levels ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kevin.mcdonald/?p=31 New Tape Library goes live! ITS life-cycled the core component of the backup environment in July, 2008. The old L700 tape library has been replaced with a Quantum i2000 Scalar tape library which boasts a dozen LTO4 drives, and eleven-hundred tape slots. This new library is a foundational ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kevin.mcdonald/?p=29 Virtual snapshots - ITS has released the Virtual Machine snapshot service. The "Snapshot Service" provides a snapshot of a real-time live image of a guest O/S system disk (or Hard Disk Drive) for a Virtual Machine. The frequency of the snapshot is recommended to ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kevin.mcdonald/?p=28 New Nagios 2.10 in production! The AppHosting team migrated the existing hosts and service configurations from the old Nagios to the new version, and it went live on Friday March 28th, 2008. The quantity and quality of the checks is a great enhancement to ITS and Vanderbilt. The server is ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kevin.mcdonald/?p=27 I am now BALOO Certified! What is BALOO? It is the Boy Scouts of America "Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation." This means that I can lead a pack in a campout. Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation (BALOO) is a one-day training event that introduces leaders and parents ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kevin.mcdonald/?p=26 Unified Communications Pilot ITS Application Hosting is performing a pilot run of the Microsoft Exchange 2007 server environment. Getting email functional has been fairly simple, but integration with the Vanderbilt environment has been challenging. EMS SCALA Report In support of the Division of Student Life's data mining needs, ITS System ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kevin.mcdonald/?p=25  SMTP Mailgates are now 100% Load Balanced!     Early in January, the System Administration staff finished the production load balancing of the SMTP mailgates. This change is a huge step in providing seamless availability to our email customers, as well as providing the flexibility to scale to future needs without changing ... http://blogs.vanderbilt.edu/~kevin.mcdonald/?p=24