When you use the archive service, you will encounter two very troublesome problem. The first problem is, you should keep your enterprise data to store where. The second question is, save the data well, how to find them. Washington Archives Management System Administrator Tom Radford company every day to deal with these two issues.
Radford said: "We for many business and industry services, including medical, legal and financial services. We specialize in hard copy storage work. We have two data centers, about 50 million servers. We also provide mapping services. "
As Washington Archives of services provided to customers as part of the content, Radford must provide customers with a tracking stored data. He did do, but need to use a lot of storage resources. He said: "They will get their file index. We will provide clients registration services, web page in our register and login you can see all the files after. The data from the SQL back end database, and is searchable. They can access the document, outline, save the dates, these can be customized by the user. "Index also contains a record of each bar code identification. In addition, they can also make changes to certain parameters.
The index accounted for almost 1TB of storage resources. To help deal with complex data tracking services, Radford and Moose Logic senior systems engineer Steve Parlee cooperated. Parlee Washington Archives has developed storage systems, and ensure the operation of the system play a key role. Parlee said: "We have two physical devices, running 15 or 16 virtual servers. If one of the servers on the virtual server fails, it will immediately restart on another server, which does not affect the continuing operation of the entire system. Two servers in real time mutual aid. "
Parlee selected DataCore's SANmelody storage system that uses Ethernet iSCSI and storage virtualization. SAN supports Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and Citrix Xenserver v.5 SP 2. He said: "We have two Dell 2950 servers, with 2GB intermediate switches. Because the devices are multiple connections between each other, so a lot of repetition and failure. "Memory is used in HP DL 180G5 with 12 connection ports, use one of the eight interfaces. He said: "iSCSI back end and the complete separation of the production network. We Xenservers server hardware using the QLogic 4062 HBAs. While not necessarily use it, but we do so primarily to improve performance, because it can help to uninstall iSCSI traffic. "
DataCore system has two network interface cards, the insertion of a switch, it can set up four channels leading to the effective storage device. Parlee said: "Because sometimes there may be half of the equipment failure, there may occur the phenomenon of multiple component failure, this configuration is very effective. "
Washington Archives using DataCore SAN, because it requires high performance and availability. Before it is used in the aging, unreliable servers, availability considerably worse. Parlee said: "We direct the migration. We used to have two HP's ESX server, they are kind of obsolete equipment. They do not use shared memory, each using their own memory. We replaced these with new equipment antique. "
Parlee use of existing servers in the Washington Archive's another place, about 40 miles away Lacey built a disaster recovery center. He said: "We use old and new server with, in Lacey built a mirror network. It became a disaster recovery center. "
Parlee remote monitoring system with Washington Archives. He said: "We have a product called MooseGuard, you can use it to monitor and maintain the network. Tom is responsible for solving the problem on site. We are responsible for hardware maintenance. We are mainly responsible for their network. "
Migrate to high-performance, virtualization, storage environment after, Washington Archives can provide customers with the company never offered before the high standard of service. It is planning to provide for the needs of our customers file mapping service. Radford said that, in general, the migration is successful. He said: "We have been able to remove half of the network to maintain, and would not affect the normal operation and production. We have all the data can be migrated in the past, and will not have any data loss. "
Parlee said, Washington Archives configured to use his company often for those who need enhanced storage virtualization applications offer configuration. He said the configuration of a reliable and stable price of only 100 thousand U.S. dollars more.