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© 2012 VCE Company, LLC. All rights reserved.
Mike Somerville, IT Manager, Systems Support & Chief Cloud Evangelist
vmworld August 2014
LIVING THE VIRTUAL DREAM
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UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO
Catholic University founded in 1949
Total Student Enrollment: 8105 Undergraduate: 5457
Graduate/Paralegal/Law: 2648
Faculty: Full + Part-Time: 875
Administrative Staff: 435 2
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UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO RANKING
#25, Undergraduate Engineering Programs (schools without doctorate) #50, Graduate Nursing Programs #65, Law Schools #14, Up-and-Coming Schools #23, Online graduate business program (supply chain management)
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#179, Best National Universities #15, Community Service Participation and Hours Served #20, ROTC Rank #39, Peace Corps Rank
#1, Undergrad. participation in study abroad in top 40 doctorate institutions
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“USD BLOCK”
We Made IT: World-class Enterprise-grade
components
Cisco UCS chassis
EMC NS-480 Storage System
VMWARE ESX v4.1
Cisco Fiber Channel
Cisco Nexus 1000v
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VCE VBLOCK SYSTEM 300
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We Bought IT: (4) Cisco UCS Chassis
32 blade capacity
Dual Fiber Channel Fabric
High Availability AMP (mgmt)
10 Gbps multi-homed network
EMC: VNX-5500 (22TB Usable)
Fully Automated Storage Tiering
Cisco Nexus 1000v
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VCE VBLOCK SYSTEM 300
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Upgraded IT (Aug 2013): (8) B200/M3 (half width) - 256 GB
ea.
2nd 3750 AMP (HA/redundancy)
VNX-5500 (add’l 12TB Usable)
+ F.A.S.T. + Fast Cache + PowerPath
Additional Cisco UCS Chassis license
Cisco Nexus 1000V licenses
Matrix Upgrade
ONE WEEK
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MORE THAN JUST HARDWARE
A “Single Point of Success” ™ World-Class team assembles and tests
Deployment time = 1 week vs. 3 months
Code & Firmware Support Matrix Pre-Tested
Increased Availability/Reliability/Redundancy
VCE Support is Excellent
PLUS the VCE User Group
VCE Engineers are Awesome!
Customer Advocate!
Monthly Care-Log meetings
Upgrades made eas(ier)
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IT CAN DO IT ALL
A look at what is running in the Vblock Exchange 2010, Active Directory
Exchange 2013
Sharepoint 2010/2013
Hyperion
Cognos reporting
Blackboard on-line learning
Media streaming/Live Commencement
MICROS POS / Campus Cash
Main web portal : Luminis 5
LDAP
Federated Identity & Access Management
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LESSONS LEARNED
Implementation time decreased by 50% or more
New VMs allocated to business units in 75% less time
IT systems staff has time to innovate
Cloud I/O
50%++ staff time innovating!
VCOPS helps to show REAL usage
Troubleshooting “a feeling” is less relevant
ITS/Systems Team is no longer the bottleneck
Cost of infrastructure + support is less
Support from VCE can yield 100% perceived uptime
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CAPACITY AND ROOM TO GROW
2012 Number of Hosts 10
Number of VMs 166
Datastores 23
Storage 22 TB usable
2013/2014 Number of Hosts 18
Number of VMs 350
Datastores 25 (storage DRS)
Storage 35 TB usable
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WE GOT THIS!
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Transparent Success: October 2013 – FULL CAMPUS
OUTAGE “… power outage this morning throughout USD campus.
Classes cancelled until…”
Normally: 6 hours for 1 datacenter
4 datacenters in 5 hours!
With vBlock: Email flowing by 2:00pm
Classes resumed.
Revenue generating: Aux Services
Expectations Exceeded!
Students… Happy?
USD loves ITS Disaster Avoidance
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VCE USER GROUP (VUG)
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The World’s Most Advanced Converged User Group For Users / By Users
VCE support
VMWORLD SFO meeting
EMCWORLD LAS meeting SWITCH DATACENTER TOUR
Sharing Successes
Making an “A” an “A+”
Solving Challenges
Make your VBLOCK ROCK!
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THANK YOU!
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Questions?
Mike Somerville,
IT Manager, Systems Support
& Chief Cloud Evangelist
[email protected] cell: +1.619.414.2100