Archive for March, 2009
March 2009 WINS
Application Hosting, ITS, Vanderbilt University
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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 improvement. ITS plans to perform additional early April to continue to fine tune processes and ensure that all system administrators are prepared by selecting different administrators to perform the test.
The environment is currently providing production mail service to seventy-four (74) individuals and should have the entire ITS department participating in early April.
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Backup Service Success
The ITS backup service provided extremely successful solution for one co-location customer during March. The customer suffered critical failure on two databases and was able to restore the data with limited loss of data. This unique scenario happens to occur six minutes after a backup was made of the databases making that the recovery point for the data.
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Enhanced Load Balancing Functionality
All of the F5 Local Traffic Managers (LTM) are online and available for use. ITS also changed way the LTMs are deployed providing geographic load balancing within the infrastructure. This will allow ITS to provide load balancing Hill Data Center and Stevenson Data Center.
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New List Server put into production!
The migration from the legacy Majordomo application to a new “LISTSERV®” product was completed in March 2009. This brings Vanderbilt’s email list collaboration ability from a decade and a half old to modern technology adding numerous features, architecture options, and capabilities.
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ACT Online “Security for Everyone” Certifications!
All twenty-four of the Application Hosting members took and passed the ACT Online “Security for Everyone” Department of Homeland Security certification test. Several of them have also taken and passed additional modules such as “IT Professional” and “Cyber Ethics.” This is a free web-based offering for US Citizens.