Archive for May, 2007
April 2007, Application Hosting WINS report
April, 2007 WINS
· Operational:
o Blog Services: There are now 98 blogs on the server.
o Redhat VM patch: Applied the VMware recommended RPM for the MPT Fusion driver on all Redhat Linux VM’s. This will prevent the Linux file systems from becoming read-only in the event of high IO or SAN fabric failover.
o Apphost1a Migration: Migrated single server called Apphost1a running Windows Server 2003, ColdFusion 6.1MX, and SQL Server 2000 to a virtual machine running Windows Server 2003 and ColdFusion 6.1MX and the databases were moved to the highly available Microsoft SQL 2005 cluster.
o Mail routing for math.v.e is now routing through the proofpoint appliances.
o 359 magic tickets processed / closed.
· Storage:
o Upgraded Legato to 7.3, Legato branded version.
o Implemented a second Linux storage node
o Implemented NDMP for the Celerra NAS device.
o Performed a storage upgrade to support Owen and Law migrations.
o Racked second Cisco 9509 Director and planned migration.
o Performed the first ILM movement of data across tiers of storage without an outage required on the user’s part. (The data store for snf-be was moved from tier 2 to tier 1 storage.)
o Performed a ILM filesystem analysis for a customer.
· Server:
o The HP c-class blade chassis is powered on, and the onboard administrator has been configured.
o LDAP1 and AUTH1 physical migration. This freed up rack space to allow the data center to reclaim a rack.
o VMware ESX security vulnerability patching – a couple of security vulnerabilities were discovered in VMware ESX Server 3.0.x. The vulnerabilities were assessed and the patches were applied to 2 test servers to insure there would be no induced instabilities. After testing, the patches will be rolled out into the production environment.
· DNS:
o NETID separation planning, designing, risk assessment
· ESM / Metrics
o All of the SAN infrastructure was put into Cacti this month for metering SAN bandwidth usage.
o Created monthly Email metrics report.
· Projects:
o Owen / Law Migration: Designed, validated, and implemented the facilities and network components of this project. Validated breath of scope and created timelines for server migrations.
o Web Architecture Migration: 34% of the web content has been migrated, redirected, or deleted. 13% of the sites have been copied over for testing. The pace of the migrations has picked up, and status updates are supplied on a tracking page . http://its.vanderbilt.edu/support/migrations.php
o SharePoint Implementation – Created a real project for this effort. Worked with Microsoft on resolving an issue with users receiving an “Access is Denied” error message whenever they go to https://sharepoint.its.vanderbilt.edu
o Altiris Project: Redo Stockroom tables, add and change fields
o Started the MAGIC UPGRADE project
o The ePolicy application server (ePO) is now ready to be used, ePO agent still needs to be deployed to the Windows Servers.
o Fax Server project: completed the requirements doc for IDEV’s development portion.
o CSM Implementation: The CSM’s are completely ready for production use. Webmail is scheduled to be the first customer later in May.
o MOM 2007: The server is build and the Pilot is underway.
o Infoblox DNS/DHCP Enhancement Project: Progress was made in the DNS/DHCP Enhancement Project with the go-ahead to proceed to taking the project to governance. The DNS portion is extremely stable and is pretty much good to go.
· Virtual Machine Discussions
o Mediasite (Cliff Wilson)
o Linen Services / Textraxx (Jennifer Keen)
o Paul L – DB1 web & app servers
o Sharepoint –6 VM’s requested
· Administrative
o Kevin executed 12/13 evals!
o Evan attended Legato Networker training.
o Guy Shepperd attended Proofpoint training.
o Roland attended HP Insight Manager conference.
o Kevin & Kenon attended Blade Insight conference.
o Kevin started using eProcurement instead of Yeller sheets!
o SML Presentation for Matt and Fran.
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