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Upgrade EMC Storage with
Solid-State Drive (SSD)
Disaster Recovery Site Hardware
Upgrade
Upgrade Oracle Logical Domains (LDOM)
Virtual Machines
Extend & Migrate Virtualization Farm
Disaster Recovery Solutions for UAEU
Upgrade the UAE Data Storage performance and
capacity to support the increase demands from business
applications to ensure that all administrative services
are provided with high level of quality, efficiency and
transparency. UITS - An Adaptable Organization.
Replace the old intel hardware used in the Disaster
recovery site with new hardware. VMware Cluster will be
enabled to attain the high availability to Ensure that all
administrative services are provided with high level of
quality, efficiency and transparency. UITS - An Adaptable
Organization.
Build a Disaster Recovery site outside Al Ain to host
the University most critical Enterprise IT services for
business continuity (File shared, Blackboard SQL Server,
Banner Database Server, SharePoint SQL Server and
Backup Server) to ensure that all administrative services
are provided with high level of quality, efficiency and
transparency. UITS - An Adaptable Organization.
Upgrade LDOM T2 to T5 to support the application needs
for the next 3 years, and upgrade the Banner production
servers from 32GB to 64 GB to Develop scientific research
capacity and innovation in areas of national and regional
importance.
UITS - Collaboration & Efficiency through Information
Sharing.
Enhance and extend the Capacity of the VMware Farm
to be capable of hosting more servers and migrate the
current virtual servers from standalone hardware to
VMware cluster with High availability feature to Ensure
that all administrative services are provided with high
level of quality, efficiency and transparency. UITS - An
Adaptable Organization.
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Hardware & Software procurement progress
completed.
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Network Connectivity to the DR site has been
completed.
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Data Domain & SAN replication completed.
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Domain Controller, UAEU Website, & File Sharing
services have been completed.
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Banner database and application installation
completed.
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New router with 1GB connection between DR & DC
installation completed.
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Project is on-hold due to pending for the completion
of WAN and Internet Links Upgrade project (CIO338).
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Hardware Installation completed.
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OS installation & logical domains configuration
completed.
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Waiting Application migration by EAI.
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Banner Test Servers has been delivered to application
team for Banner installation.
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Library server has been poisoned on our VMware
farm to replace the M5000 Server used by Library.
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Installation completed, first phase to migrate the
CITRIX hosts is completed & handed over to Citrix
admin to start the migration.
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DR VMware cluster is completed.
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Citrix hosts are ready, CITRIX admin in migration
process.
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Main site migration from the old hosts to the new
clusters in progress.
• 30 x 2 TB NL-SAS disk x 2 DAES. 60 TB
• 25 x 1.8 TB SSD disk x 1 DAES. 45 TB
• Recover point license for VNX7600
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