Infrastructure
OIT general storage infrastructure consists of multiple devices and technical capabilities. In the categories below are the model, connectivity speed, Data-at-rest encryption status, age of the device, and targeted lifecycle replacement date.
Block storage supporting OIT Virtual Machines
DellEMC Unity600
- Connectivity: SAN fiber channel attached and 10G ethernet
- Primary purpose:
- VM disks, hypervisors and physical servers
- 2 arrays – 1 per Data Center
- Capacity: ~ 260TB per Data Center
- Deduplication: no
- Disk: hdd and flash pools(ssd)
- Storage Tiers: Block-Capacity, NAS
- Scheduled refresh: 2024
- D@RE: yes
- encryption enabled at controller level
DellEMC Unity650F (All flash)
- Connectivity: SAN attached, 10G ethernet
- Primary purpose:
- VM disks, hypervisors in OIT VM clusters
- 2 arrays – 1 per Data Center
- Capacity: 298TB per Data Center
- Deduplication: yes, inline
- Disk: All Flash Array
- Storage Tiers: Block-Standard, Block-Performance (High IO)
- Scheduled refresh/replace: 2025
- D@RE: yes
- encryption enabled at controller level
DellEMC PowerStore (All flash)
- Connectivity: SAN attached, 25G ethernet
- Primary purpose:
- VM disks, hypervisors in OIT VM clusters
- 2 arrays – 1 per Data Center
- Capacity: 300TB+ per Data Center
- Deduplication: yes, inline
- Disk: All Flash Array
- Storage Tiers: Block-Standard, Block-Performance (High IO)
- Scheduled refresh/replace: 2026-28
- D@RE: yes
- encryption enabled at controller level
NAS (Network Attached Storage)
PowerScale (formerly Isilon) – Primary
- Connectivity: 40G ethernet
- Primary purpose:
- General and Departmental shares, B-drive shares
- Capacity: 900TB+
- Deduplication: yes
- Disk: flash ssd and spinning disks
- H700 shelf: flash ssd and hdd
- A300 shelves: hdd with Self Encrypted Drives (SEDs)
- Storage Tier: NAS
- Scheduled refresh: 2027
- D@RE: yes
PowerScale (formerly Isilon) – Replication
- Connectivity: 40G ethernet
- Primary purpose:
- General replication target for primary Isilon(PowerScale), Project, Departmental shares
- Capacity: 900TB
- Deduplication: yes
- Disk: flash ssd spinning disks
- H500 shelf: ssd and hdd (SEDs)
- A200 shelf: hdd (SEDs)
- Storage Tier: NAS
- Scheduled refresh: 2024
- D@RE: yes
NetApp
- Connectivity: 1G and 10G ethernet
- Primary purpose:
- HPC and VCL shares
- Capacity: ~ 900TB
- Deduplication: yes
- Disk: Near line SAS, spinning disks
- Storage Tier: NAS
- Scheduled refresh: 2022
- D@RE: yes
- Controller level
- Not enabled by default
- Enabled per NetApp Volume
Backups
General and enterprise OIT backups policies are managed through Avamar, Oracle RMAN and stored on the data domain appliances. The Data Domains are treated as a primary and replication, each in separate off-campus data centers.
Avamar
- Connectivity: 10G ethernet
- Services: Backup
- Capacity: 0, front-end for DataDomain
- Encrypted in transit
DataDomain – Primary
- Connectivity: 10G ethernet, SAN
- Services: Primary backup array
- Capacity: 550TB raw
- Disk: hdd
- Storage Tiers: Primary backup
- Scheduled refresh: 2024
- D@RE: yes
- encryption enabled at controller level
DataDomain – Replication
- Connectivity: 10G ethernet, SAN
- Services: Replication backup array
- Capacity: 550TB raw
- Disk: hdd
- Storage Tiers: backup replication
- Scheduled refresh: 2024
- D@RE: yes
- encryption enabled at controller level