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Outsourcing the Data CenterIngvi Stígsson
Why new Data Center?
● Old Data Center not secure enougho Wooden ceilingo Has water pipes
● Too long wait for a new buildingo The need has been discussed for many years
● Too expensive to upgrade the old building
New Data Center
● External partner: Basiso ISO 27001 Certifiedo PCI-DSSo Hosts many companies
● Alþingi owns the hardwareo Has it own “server rack”
The migration planning
● The planning and preparation took some monthso Deciding which hardware should be movedo Move servers into virtual serverso Consolidate data that should be moved onto
one SANo Connection
Connections
● Between Alþingi and Basiso Primary connection through “Dark Fiber”
(1Gb/s)o Secondary connection through IP 100Mb/s
● Internet connection via Basis
Traffic from January
Storage Area Network
● EMC (26TB)-> IBM (16TB)o Storage solution from EMC was left behindo New storage solution from IBM installed
All servers using SAN need to talk to IBM SAN All data relevant data moved to IBM SAN
solution (8TB)● EMC still used for security cameras
recordings (12TB)
Servers
● Before moving to Basiso Moving most servers Xen (virtual server)o VMware virtual servers moved to Xen
● 8 physicals servers movedo Sun x1o Xen (SuperMicro) x1 with 36 virtual serverso Linux x5o Windows x1
Servers left behind
● IBM DataBlade Center● Some physical servers ● Mostly related to
o Security (video servers, access servers, lights servers)
o Encoder for live broadcasting and VODo Audio recording
Also left behind
● Telephone station● Network switches● The fiber cable connection
The moving plan● Saturday
o Start at 6:00 - shutdown servers and start packingo Truck arrives at 7:30o Police escort at 8:30o Unpacking starts at 9:00, servers booted when
readyo Testing if everything works at 11:00
● Sundayo Employees at Basis and Alþingi should be standby
Problems
● Sun server does not boot normally
Problems
● Sun server does not boot normally● Xen does not boot normally
Problems
● Sun server does not boot normally● Xen does not boot normally
● Paths to EMC still in the configuration
Experience so far
● Mostly running smoothly● One major incident in May
o Earthquakeo Problems in one aluminum smeltero Leads to power surge in the national power
system
Electricity incident
UPS UPS
Power Company
Diesel generator
Power Company
Diesel generator
Electricity incident
UPS UPS
Power Company
Diesel generator
Power Company
Diesel generator
UPS
Power Company
Diesel generator
Thank you for listening
• Any questions?