Department of Game and Fish
Information Systems Division
Alternate Data Center and Upgrade
Program Initiation
June 24, 2015
Purpose/Approach
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The purpose is to address our requirement to have our mission critical online and
vendor sales systems (used to sell all hunting/fishing/trapping licenses) and our
website to be available to our customers (e.g. vendors, public) at least 99.99% of
the time.
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The overall approach is to develop an active – active cluster of the systems
between two geographically separated data sites and replace end of life
components
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Project Goals
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Reduce the number of single points of failure
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Replace end of life servers and network components
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Standardize on servers and network components
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Replace physical servers with virtual servers to increase resources flexibility and
performance
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Centralize data storage and eliminate use of local storage for increased redundancy and
performance
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Minimize downtime during migration
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Procure all components at the beginning of project
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Schedule
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Planning Phase: Completed
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Phase 1 (DoIT): 30 days from Project Approval
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Move existing redundant servers and load balancers from NMDGF Hqs Data Site to DoIT Data Site
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Rack is leased to house the equipment at DoIT Data Site
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Replace end of life McAfee firewall with Cisco ASA 5525 Firewall
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Establishes an alternate data center with manual failover capabilities
Phase 1 (NMDGF HQS): 30 Days from Project Approval
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Establish DoIT as the primary data site for operations
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Replace end of life network switches with Cisco 3750 switches
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Convert application physical servers to virtual servers on one physical server
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Validate performance and functionality of virtual servers
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Schedule
Phase 2: 60 Days from Project Approval
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Replace the servers at NMDGF Hqs with Cisco Blade Servers using the virtual versions
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Move the server with the virtual servers to the test domain
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Connect the servers to a Storage Area Network device
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Validate performance and functionality
Phase 3: 90 Days from Project Approval
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Establish NMDGF Hqs as the primary site
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Replace the servers at DoIT with Cisco Blade Servers using copies of the NMDGF virtual
versions
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Connect the servers to a Storage Area Network device
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Validate performance and functionality
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Install Datto Sirius 2 device to establish active-active connectivity between the two
data sites
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Schedule
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Project Closeout: Completion of Phase 3 plus 30 days
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Validate failover and performance
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Project-Funding
Project Appropriation
$350,000
Professional Services
$20,000
$330,000
IT Maintenance for year 1
$30,000
$300,000
Exempt IT supplies
$50,000
$250,000
IT Equipment – Software
$50,000
$200,000
IT Equipment - Hardware
$200,000
$0
IT Maintenance after year 1 will be covered by
annual budgets.
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Questions?