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

HCI (Hyper-converged Infrastructure)

VxFlex

• Connectivity: 25G ethernet
• Primary purpose: VM only
  • consists of storage nodes for HCI VM Prod cluster (compute nodes)
• Capacity: 400TB+
• Deduplication: no
• Disk: flash ssds
• Storage Tiers: standard and performance
• Scheduled refresh: 2024
• D@RE: no
  • keep drive (compensating control)

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