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TRAINING CHARON VAX-AXPOctober 2011

PARIS

SPIE S.ADSTI

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Profil

European leader in :

electrical and mechanical engineering

HVAC (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning) services

SPIE enhances the quality of life by helping local and regional authorities and companies design, build, operate and maintain facilities that are more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly.

energy and communication systems

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2010 Key figures

More than 29,000 employees

400 locations

30 countries

Pro forma turnover : €3.75 billion

Operating profit from ordinary activities : €192.3 million

For more informations : www.spie.com

Our Information System

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SPIE’s WAN

Internet

Headquarters

Data center

French subsidiaries

9

Foreign subsidiaries

3

commercial agencies

hundreds

Context

Hardware : DS20E

O.S : Tru64 5.1B

Database : Oracle 8i

Application server : iAS 8i

Development language : Forms 6i5

Typical configuration for a subsidiary :

LAN

Alpha server DS20EDatabase

Alpha server DS20EApplication server 1

Alpha server DS20EApplication server 2

IAS IAS

SPIE’s WAN

Set of critical middle-office homemade software managing :

Purchases

Sales

Orders

Equipments

Suppliers and supplies

…

Still evolving and supported for 7 subsidiaries.

Total of 23 Alpha Servers (DS20E,DS20,AS800) for production & development.

Limitations:

High hardware maintenance cost (hardware failures).

Disk space limited.

3 servers to manage and supervise for 1 application instance.

Performances growth limited.

Constraints :

Each subsidiary has it’s own hardware.

No software version modification.

Keep the same quality of service.

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Limitations & constraints

End 2008

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dka0dka0

dka100

dka200

dkb100

2 - Clean devices, doconfig, install latest patch kit

3 - add disks for application & data file systems

1 - restore / and /usr from dump of actual DS20E

restore /usr

restore

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Software (Oracle, iAS, backup …)

Spie Forms Binaries

Database

Restore from backup

Charon-AXP and Hardware tests (I/O, cpu, Oracle) -- middle of 2009.

Dell/Charon Master copy setup -- end of 2009.

Clone Windows using RAID1 rebuild capability

Master copy and migration methods (clone) tests -- 2010

Tests, master copy

dka100

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1 RAID1 (36Go)

1 RAID5 (100Go, 4 HDD)

1 ethernet adaptor (100Mbit or 1Gbit)

2 or 4 GB SDRAM

1 or 2 EV6.7 667MHz processors

Compaq Smart Array SCSI Controller with 6 (36GB) SCSI HDD

1 Intel Xeon Quad Core X5570 2.93 GHz

4 or 6 GB SDRAM

4 ethernet adaptors (1Gbit)

Integrated Perc 6/I Controller with 6 (146GB) SAS HDD

3 RAID 1 (140GB each)

1 or 2 cores for Charon-AXP1 core for Windows1 core for Charon’s I/O

3 or 4 GB SDRAM for Charon-AXP

3 for Charon (netrain + backup)1 for Windows

Tru64 O.SApplications (Oracle, iAS …)swap

Oracle database dataSPIE Forms binaries

1 – Windows O.STru64 swap

2 – Tru64 O.SApplications file systems (Oracle, iAS …)SPIE Forms binariesOracle archive logs

3 – Oracle database data

Before After

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Dell R610Compaq DS20EStromasysCharon-AXP SMA+

DS20DS10AS1200

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3 DS20E

3 DS20E

3 DS20E

3 DS20E

4 DS20E

2 DS20E

1 DS20E 7 subsidiaries :

19 production DS20E

4 non-production servers

Migration (2010)

Migration Step 1 :

Move the 19 DS20E to the SPIE headquarters.

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Step 2 :

Clone Windows 2k3 from the master copy on the 12 Dell R610 and install Charon-Axp license keys.

Step 3 :

Backup the non-O.S file systems from the actual DS20E and restore them on the Charon-AXP corresponding file systems

Step 4 :

Turn off the old DS20E.

Migration (2010)

Low hardware maintenance (up-to-date hardware with 3 year warranty).

Less servers to manage => less space/electrical consumption/cooling.

Performances and stability enhancement.

Easy to update : add/upgrade CPU, SDRAM, disks or change server.

Quick migration : no rewriting and qualifications tests for applications and processes.

No change for application users, developers and Unix administrators.

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Benefits of Charon-AXP

What’s next …

ES40 evolution (1 more CPU and 4GB SDRAM).

Improve the Disaster Recovery Plan.

SAN tests for better I/O performances.

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oConsulting, testsoMaster copy conceptionoTru64 and Charon-AXP expert

oStudies and testsoTechnical architectureoMigration

Key actors

oSupportoEvaluation license keys