Brown University Utilizing CUMULUS for Disaster

Recovery in the Cloud

Nancy MagersAssociate Director of Disaster Recovery and Storage Service

Primary Storage Replica StorageData Backups

Disaster Recovery ContractsDisaster Recovery Sites

Disaster Recovery Procedures Disaster Recovery Drills

 

How is Brown Using CUMULUS

Dedicated VMWare resource pools with centralized secure  networking (firewall & VPN)

– Some Virtual Machines Hosting– Disaster Recovery for Autonomous Departments

• Advancement – Alumni.brown.edu– Gifts.brown.edu– Advance.brown.edu

• Facilities– FAMIS (facilities management information system)

FY12-Q1

DR Step 1 is Business Continuity Planning

Identify your business drivers • Establish commitment from the top that protecting IT services is

important.    • Have the business owners establish the priority of the recovery

of the application?   • What is the value of the service and what is the impact of it

not being available• KualiReady from Kuali Foundation Higher Ed tool for BC

Planning.

Prioritize & PlanPrioritize your portfolio & Set your goals

RTO - Time to recoveryRPO - Acceptable data lossMAD - Maximum Allowable Downtime

Rating RTO RPO MAD Service Provider/Owner

1A 2 Hours 0-10 Min 8 Hours Active Directory

CIS

2A 24 Hours 0-10 Min 5 Days COEUS Grant Management

CIS- OSP

3A 7 Days 24 Hours 20 Days Campus Event Calendar

CIS – PAUR

2 Hours 2 Hours 24 Hours Advancement Web Portal

Advancement

24 Hours 2 Hours 48 Hours Facilities MGMT IS

Facilities

Plan Your Strategy

  CUMULUS Planning Visio– Management Access

• Details source (OSHEAN Member) Firewall / VPN • Details Network connectivity of VCenter environment

– NAT/PAT– Source ESX Hosts– Target VReplicator, VCenter & ESX

• Identifies resonsible owner for subscribers Network environment

– Member Access• Details VMWare source and target host information• Identifies responsible owner for subscribers VMWare

environment– Security

• Details OSHEAN ACL's and Firewall Policies

  Network Service Planning and Design • Global Traffic Manager  - Brown Environment

• CNAMES• A Records• Services and Servers• VLAN's• Network Ports

   

Service (CNAME) AIS Server Name

AIS IP Address

AIS Internal IP

AIS VLAN

Cumulus Server Name

Cumulus Server Address

Cumulus VLAN

Port Service Name Port Sources

alumni-staging.advancement.brown.edu

WebDev00-alumni.advad.advancement.brown.edu

128.148.242.29 (p)

192.168.2.29

VLAN-2

Alumni-C-WebDev00-AIS

128.148.182.15

VLAN-2091

http, ssl, rdp

80, 443, 3389 Any

sybase-staging.advancement.brown.edu

WebDevDB00-sybase.advad.advancement.brown.edu

128.148.240.123

VLAN-4

Sybase-C-WebDevDB00-AIS 10.65.48.15

VLAN-2090

sybase db, ssh 5000, 22 Any

Get Your Data There • Quest VReplicator – Snapshots ( Requires some local storage)– Data Change Rate Effects Frequency – Testing helps ID the correct frequency.  – This affects RPO!

Recovery planning– Who do you need (essential personnel)

• DBA/Systems• Network / F5 Mgmt

– Databases Services - Semi Automated• IP Change Scripts • GTM - Management

–  Script your recovery

 Test Planning– What will your testing strategy be?

• Dev/QA Only?• Frequency• Success criteria• Track your metrics

Maintain Your Environment– Replication Monitoring and Reporting– Management VM

• SSH/Putty• Application Management Tools• Patching

Deming knows bestPlan Your Environment Thoroughly!!!!!   An ounce of planning is worth a pound of execution. 

Build Your Environment

Test Your Environment.  Record metrics and involve your application owner. 

Maintain, Monitor and Improve .   Keep your environment current and ensure it is providing VALUE.

On with the show.... 

WebEX Recording with commentary by Mike and Nancy