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Upgrade Oracle Logical Domains (LDOM)
Virtual Machines
The purpose of the LDOM upgrade project is to
consolidate, virtualize and enhance the University’s
Oracle SPARC environment, which hosts our Backup and
Banner Software.
Currently, the University’s SPARC environment consists
of about 19 physical servers, which, during the course of
this project will be virtualized and consolidated across
only 2 physical servers, SPARC T5-4.
Below are some of the Benefits of this project:
Project Status:
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Enhance the performance with new hardware
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Reduce Support and maintenance cost
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Reduce both physical and power footprint of the
SPARC Environment
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Virtualization will provide greater flexibility in
administering the SPARC environment
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Resources like disk, memory, network and CPU can be
changed according to performance needs while the
system is running
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Hardware Installation is complete
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OS installation and Logical Domain configuration is
complete
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Banner Test Server has been delivered to Application
team for installing and test Banner
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Library Server has been provisioned on VMware far
to replace the M5000 server used by Library
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EMC Networker Server (legato02), successfully
migrated to the T5 server
Windows server 2008
and above
Oracle Solaris
Enterprise OS
Red Hat
Linux
VMware
vSphere
Microsoft
Hyper-V
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