how things went
NFS is redone with NSS from Dell – high availability
very little down time
labs are generally 3/4 full
when project is due, nearly all labs filled
doubled amount of storage per user, can go higher
do we want to provide this service for everyone? not everyone needs this.
mount student directory onto lab machines?
network infrastructure
spring/summer project
just lost 3 good students
new switches installed
configure and move over 1 to 10 Gbps in the core, eventually get 10 Gbps fiber into student labs and research labs, move to Cat 6, need to replace fiber – 2 to 3 years out
phase in costs and 2-3 days of downtime per lab, need to buy new switches too
$3,000 switch per lab, and 15 open labs, 18 research labs
Fall
changing all our images so we are running Windows on a VM and every machine is Linux – all labs exactly the same
VM runs faster on SSD than natively on old hard drives
any lab configured like any other lab
no licensing issues with Windows and software
by Fall, half machines in open labs ready to go with this
other half in two years (we do half machines every 2 years)
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