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Out-of-State Disaster Recovery Site
Presented by: Brian Aasen, Kevin Phan, Ken Noone, Rita Schnepp – 2/2/15
Slide2Pepperdine University is located in the Santa Monica mountains overlooking the beaches of Malibu, CA.
Slide3This USGS earthquake map illustrates 1 of several reasons we selected Phoenix, Arizona for our DR site.
Slide4Our Phoenix site, (pictured on the right), is in a multi-tenant data center which occupies 530,000 sq. ft.
Slide5It is a tier III – certified data center offering these benefits:
Guaranteed 99.982 % availability
Dual-powered; dual-cooled facility
Multiple independent distribution paths to IT equipment
Concurrently maintainable infrastructure
Slide6We currently have 2 connections to Phoenix: a private MPLS circuit & a public internet circuit.
Slide7Our Malibu-based IT team tracks space & port availability in our Phoenix cabinets.
Slide8Two groups play distinct roles in our disaster recovery policy.
The 1
st
group is our university’s
executive leadership
which determines
the priority data to be recovered
.
The
2
nd
group is our
IT department
which puts
the mechanisms in place to recover that data.
Slide9This is a sampling of the data we are replicating to Phoenix:
Oracle databases
Exchange (EMAIL) data
Mission-critical network shares & files
DNS (Domain Name Services)
NOLIJ imaging data
Slide10Our I.T. team uses these 3 automated mechanisms in recovering data:
“Replication”
“Testing”
“Recovery”
Slide11We replicate, test, and recover our data using these 6 elements. They must exist on both sides: Malibu & Phoenix.
Slide12The following slides further explain the 3 disaster recovery mechanisms we’ve been using:
“Replication”
“Testing”
“Recovery”
Slide13The 1st mechanism, REPLICATION, copies data to Phoenix using SnapMirror™ technologies. We can do this non-disruptively.
Slide14The 2nd mechanism, TESTING, activates a bubble network in Phoenix which allows Sys Admins to confirm successful transfer of replicated data. This is also non-disruptive.
Slide15The 3rd mechanism, RECOVERY, activates a live, user-accessible network in Phoenix. Unlike REPLICATION & TESTING, RECOVERY is “disruptive.”
Slide16These “TEST” and “RECOVERY” buttons launch the “testing” & “recovery” mechanisms from the GUI interface of the orchestrating software (SRM).
Slide17This shows the GUI interface, (for the “orchestrating software”), of a live DNS
RECOVERY we performed on 12/9/14.
Slide18
This shows the successful results of our 12/9/14 RECOVERY with DNS servers “up & running” in Phoenix.
Slide19Work in progress
We successfully completed automated
“testing”
on bubble networks for our Exchange Email servers.
We had partial success with
“recovery”
of Exchange Email servers in February, 2015.
From 2015-2016, we plan to further develop the public internet connection in Phoenix for user access in a disaster.
Slide20We’d like to acknowledge our project team:
Ken
Noone
, Technical Lead, Sys Admin
Brian Aasen, Data Center Manager, Sys Admin
Dr. Kim Cary, Chief Security Officer & team
Thor Anderson, Security Architect
Zorinan Kasilag, Network Engineer & team
Rita
Schnepp
, Project Manager
Kevin Phan, Assoc. CIO; Project Sponsor
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