Page 12 - TIM_2021
P. 12
INFRASTRUCTURE
UPGRADES
2020 was an interesting year to say the least for the IT Actifio Replaces VEEAM at Remote Locations - The
Infrastructure Department. Although teams were sent Server Team has completed the migration of all VEEAM
home in March in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, school backups to the Actifio Copy Data Management
the projects on our plate continued as normal. Here are backup solution. The Actifio solution is next-generation
just a few of our accomplishments over the past year: and allows the District to consolidate all backup
requirements into one solution. Actifio allows us to
High School Server Refresh - All high school servers protect critical data by replicating it to the NWRDC.
were upgraded to new hardware this past year in
accordance with the normal five-year refresh lifecycle. VMware Upgrade Districtwide - Over the past year,
The upgrades brought advanced networking features the Server Team upgraded to the latest versions of
for greater speeds and the ability to migrate virtual core virtual technology for over 2,000 servers and 200
machines with no downtime or impact during hardware sites. This ensures our key systems are running at peak
refreshes at the schools. performance and have the latest security features. The
District also invested in Hyper-converged infrastructure
ERP Database Migration from DB2 to Oracle - The (HCI) enhancing the Data Center’s technology.
Server Team has been working with the ERP admins to
migrate the IBM AIX database servers to Oracle. This Firewall Upgrades - An upgrade to our firewall solution,
was required in order to maintain Oracle PeopleSoft required by the increase in capacity requirements due
support. PeopleSoft is the District’s financial, human to remote learning, improves performance and online
resources and e-Learning system. security across the District.
IBM P Server Upgrade to P9 (Power 9) - The Server School Upgrades - Fiber upgrades have been
Team worked with the ERP and EDW departments to completed at all schools and are ready to meet expected
migrate certain District enterprise applications from older greater demands. Core router and access point
IBM server hardware to the latest Power systems. This upgrades continued on schedule throughout 2020. Sixty-
upgrade allows IT Infrastructure to save on application seven core routers were completed in high and middle
and database licensing, as we’ve moved to the newer, schools and 43 access points at elementary schools. The
more powerful P9 CPUs. This project also included Network Services Team continued upgrading phones by
repurposing the P8 server for ERP and EDW for disaster outfitting 23 high, 33 middle and 40 elementary schools,
recovery/business continuity at the Northwest Regional in addition to 5 ancillary sites.
Data Center (NWRDC).
