Strategic Planning. It s In The Clouds. Nov. 4, Internet2 Fall Member Meeting

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1 It s In The Clouds Nov. 4, Internet2 Fall Member Meeting In Atlanta: Ann O Beay, CTO, Ohio Board of Regents Paul Schopis, CTO, OARnet In Columbus, Ohio: John Magill, Interim Executive Director, OhioLINK Matt Howard, CIO, etech Ohio Marcus Milligan, Director Instructional and Service Technologies, Ohio Learning Network Strategic Planning

2 University System of Ohio 10-Year Strategic Plan, Three goals: Graduate more students Keep more graduates in Ohio Attract more degree holders from outside the state Plan provides comprehensive blueprint to raise Ohio s educational attainment, with specific strategies and measureable goals University System of Ohio 10-Year Strategic Plan, Collaborate Increase efficiency Leverage technology to achieve results Goals: Create a single, integrated technology infrastructure supporting higher education Expand online course offerings Integrate technology with K-12

3 Table of Organization Ohio Board of Regents Technology Partners Chief Technology Officer Chancellor Chair of the etech Ohio Commission OARnet OSC OLN OhioLINK etech Organization Ohio Academic Resources Network Ohio Supercomputer Center Ohio Learning Network Ohio Library and Information Network etech Ohio Commission Strategic Support Area Networking P-20 research and education State and local government Internet2 Health care ARRA/BTOP partnerships Technology infrastructure and shared services Supercomputing for academia and industry Economic development Technology - enhanced learning Distance education Professional development Student services Outreach Library and information resources OhioLINK Library Catalog Electronic Journal Center Digital Resource Commons Digital Media Role Technology - enhanced learning Distance education Professional development Networking public broadcasting Videoconferencing Enterprise software Telepresence 5 Technology Partners Dynamics Alignment with 10-year Strategic Plan for Higher Education Guiding principles - Leadership - Engagement - Collaboration 6

4 USO S Community Cloud Shared Infrastructure (SI) Objectives Shared Infrastructure Implementation of a hardware platform that will advance the development of an integrated technology infrastructure as outlined in 10-year Strategic Plan for Higher Education SI implementation will allow Ohio to lead the country in cloud computing on a statewide level as a higher education system 8

5 What is a Cloud? Cloud computing is Internet-based computing, whereby shared resources, software, and information are provided to computers and other devices on demand, like the electricity grid. Wikipedia Cloud computing is a style of computing using scalability, elasticity and Internet technologies. Gartner 9 Types of Clouds Public Pay for service. Examples: Amazon and Google. Private Virtualized data center that makes services available across business units. Community Half way between public and private clouds. The key features are usually public sector entities in collaboration across multiple administrative domains. Examples: FAA, US Army, Niagara Falls Police Dept. Ontario Canada, and USO. 10

6 Shared Infrastructure (SI) Objectives Primary drivers for cloud computing Consolidate services Reduce costs Provide better SLAs for compute services Reduce duplication Take advantage of economies of scale Provide disaster recovery and business continuity to all state universities Provide full array of hosting solutions 11 Models For Private Clouds Source: Gartner, Inc. 25 August 2010 ID:G

7 Schopis Square of Multitenancy Service Tensions 13 Shared Infrastructure Capacity Capacity measured in four key areas: 1. Computing Performance and utility blades 2. Storage Tier 1 and Tier 2 3. Backup 4. Database 14

8 Compute Capacity! Performance Blades Capacity of physical blades 14 of 22 blade servers in use Capacity of 280 virtualized machines based on 7 blades 1 blade, virtualized, equals 40 VM 120 of 280 virtual machines in use 9% Capacity expansion to VM cluster 2 blades 27% Available capacity (on order) 6 blades 64% Total compute capacity in use 14 blades 5 virtualized 9 stand alone 28.5% Expansion of 2 blades 80 virtual machines 28.5% Available capacity (from 2 of the blades on order) 80 virtual machines 43% Virtual capacity in use 120 virtual machines 15 Compute Capacity! Utility Blades Of 11 utility blades, 6 available for future growth Total compute capacity in use 5 blades Compute capacity currently available 2 blades Capacity expansion (on order) 4 blades 16

9 Virtual Storage Capacity, October Backup Capacity, October 2010 Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) 700 TB total useable backup purchased 42% in use (300TB of 700TB) 18

10 Database Capacity, October 2010 Oracle database Used for SI application 3 node production cluster 2 node test cluster 25% of production capacity 19 Projected Capacity of the SI 20

11 USO s Shared Infrastructure Active applications include: DRC development site OARnet webserver Regents development webserver OhioLINK NFS server OhioLINK NAXOS Tivoli storage manager Oracle Nagios monitoring VMware ESX cluster Shibboleth ATC development server Kinnear Road Center 21 Future SI Activities A sample of planned projects include: efolio Student Portal Gateway Ohio Tuition Trust Authority Higher Education Information system BOR-SAS Two-year project to replace the HEI system etech Conference Tracking OhioLINK QuickSearch2 Identity management project Microsoft Exchange OhioLINK Electric Journal Center (EJC) migration to Linux 22

12 Lessons Learned Current apps migrate easily. Legacy apps have a fairly steep entry curve. Must first be ported It takes time to figure out governance. It takes time to develop relationships that allow organizations to take full advantage of the environment. 23 Partner Experiences

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