VMworld 2013 Sean O'Dell, VMware Joey Ware, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center Learn more about VMworld and register at http://www.vmworld.com/index.jspa?src=socmed-vmworld-slideshare

1. What it Took to Stretch Higher Education
and Take It to the Cloud?
Sean O'Dell, VMware
@theseanodell
Joey Ware, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center
@joey_vm_ware
VSVC5660
#VSVC5660

2. WHAT IT TOOK TO STRETCH HIGHER
ED. AND TAKE IT TO THE CLOUD

3. Drivers for Shared Services at OU
• The University is a combination of a
Centralized and De-Centralized IT Shop
– Colleges are de-centralized
– Administration is centralized
– This makes it difficult to achieve the level of
customer satisfaction desired at the University
• Pressure to gain cost efficiencies across the 3
campuses

4. The OU Shared Services Strategy
o Leverage the commitment from the OU
Executive Leadership to fund 3 new
datacenters
• Geographically located in Oklahoma City,
Norman and Tulsa
o Develop a single vision for the 3 data centers
• Utilize 70+ IT professionals to take
ownership of the vision to create a world-
class private cloud

5. Tenants of the Shared Services Vision
at OU
• Create a service culture that is customer
focused and business intelligent
• Build an infrastructure utilizing economies of
scale and standardized processes
• Use industry best practices to transform the
current infrastructure into an efficient deliver
model for the customer

6. How Did OU Do It?
• Gathered 70+ IT Professionals for a month to
identify the foundational components for the
infrastructure and develop plans for the future
of this foundation
• The key to making it work was to design and
build the best possible private cloud utilizing a
best-of-breed virtualization platform

7. How do we have connectivity to the three campuses?

8. What does it look like from the virtualization standpoint?

9. How to make it easy for vOps for new hosts or cluster changes?
Host Profiles = easy config changes for the vOperations team.
Next would be to teach PowerCLI/vC Orchestrator for automation.

10. What does it look like from the host connectivity standpoint?

11. What does it look like from the storage standpoint?

12. How does vCloud Director fit into Shared Services?

13. What about monitoring?

14. So a layer2 network across both data centers, how does migrations look?

15. So a layer2 network across both data centers, how does migrations look?
Now with SSD!
50GB Thick Provisioned = 3 minutes 10 seconds

16. What this means for our customers?
1. Storage Live Migrations across sites.
2. Server Live Migrations across sites.
3. Secure Data Centers: data doesn’t leave our network space.
4. Multiple Operations teams with a 24/7 on-call system.

17. 1. Meeting with current customers on migration from old to new.
• AMD to Intel hosts (require a reboot)
• IP Changes
2. All new customers go directly to S2 environment
• vCloud Director access
3. Fiber connection to Tulsa Campus
• Design ideas – stretched cluster/SRM cluster
4. Hybrid Cloud
So where do we go now?

18. How about the whole state with OneNET?

19. THANK YOU!

20. 2020
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22. What it Took to Stretch Higher Education
and Take It to the Cloud?
Sean O'Dell, VMware
@theseanodell
Joey Ware, University of Oklahoma Health Science Center
@joey_vm_ware
VSVC5660
#VSVC5660