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cedures we are running at (Asynchronous IP Mirroring) college life, using funds that
70%. These measures have feature is used to replicate previously would have had
1-2-1 DA
meant that we have not had data of the two colleges to be used to maintain the
to consider purchasing extra over a low bandwidth link status quo,” outlines Dave.
storage.” for disaster recovery purpos-
es offering synchronous mir- “We have several irons in
Supporting the roring and auto failover for the fire, but are particularly
VMware applications path and data. This resultant interested in introducing a
Storage virtualisation has high availability solution Network Access Control
been provided using allows full restoration auto- (NAC) system. Conference
DataCore’s SANmelody solu- matically within minutes. revenue during vacation
tion. Dave didn’t jump both periods is a vital part of the
feet first into investing in Higher degrees of college’s business plan.
VE HAR
this aspect. management through
effective storage A NAC system would provide
“When we saw the DataCore allocation a mechanism for delegates
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solution and grasped that it What Dave and his team to get online in their bed-
would run on a standard have also found is that util- rooms without the need for
windows server and could ising two SANmelody’s has pre-registration with IT, all of
also utilise existing hard- allowed them to share their course in a secure manner.
ware, we quickly realised primary volumes more even-
that this would represent a ly to achieve effective load “The system would also be
better buy. Couple this with balancing. And the flexible of great benefit when new
its ability to thin-provision management offered means students arrive en masse at
storage over our existing that the days of guessing the beginning of the aca-
Ethernet architecture and the correct allocation of disk demic year as well as the
Fibre Channel connectivity, space are long gone. ongoing arrival of academics
and we were comfortable from around the world.”
that this would be a good “Now that we have imple-
choice. mented it, we appreciate However, Dave stresses that
that SANmelody delivers such projects will not be
The ability to thin-provision additional functionality and allowed to detract from the
storage allows the university flexibility over a traditional central function of the IT
to centrally provide capacity hardware based solution.” department.
on demand, presenting virtu- concludes Dave.
al volumes from the central “Our overriding priority is
storage pool to the applica- The future for IT at always the security of the
tions, allocating capacity Oriel network, and allowing the
only when really needed. Never one to rest on his lau- staff to carry out their jobs
rels, Dave is already keen to unencumbered.
High Availability and implement further ‘business
Disaster Recovery improvements’ to the col- Being able to devote avail-
secured leges via the smart use of IT. able resources to this, due
Each college currently has to the completion of the vir-
1.5TB of “real” usable stor- “Our virtualisation project tualisation project, is in my
age capacity beneath having now been completed view great progress from the
SANmelody, offering syn- has left us with an extreme- situation we had pre-virtual-
chronous mirroring and ly flexible and resilient solu- isation a year ago,” Dave
auto-failover for path and tion. This enables us to look concludes.
data for transparent high to provide some added
availability. DataCore’s “AIM” value to the operation of
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