Moving the “Brains” of the
district
MOVING THE ENTIRE DATACENTER OF LAKE MILLS
SCHOOL DISTRICT
Chris Czerniak, CETL
[email protected]
Overview
• Our layout
• Timeline
• The Actual Move
• What was learned
• What would be done different
• Questions
Our Layout
• 4 Buildings
High school and District office connected via dark fiber
• Middle school has wireless link going to the High school
• Elementary has wireless link going to the High School
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• Link between schools Motorola Canopy System (up to 30 Mbps)
• Internet comes into the Highschool @ 100Mps
• Two techs for the district
Our Background
• Badgernet and Wiscnet for internet
• Lightspeed web-filter
• Four HP Vmware boxes
• Two SANS (EMC)
• VoIP phone system
High School
Elementary School
Middle School
Why move the Data Center
• Old datacenter is a closet
• Building a new school
• No Temperature control
• Temperature controlled
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Temperatures near 98 every day
House fan to keep things cool
• Flooded more then once
• No door between office and
servers
• Separate rooms
• Proper racks
Timeline
• Summer of 2013
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Divide the servers onto own subnet
Review what needs to be completed as to not miss things
• School year of 2013-2014
Talk with ISP when to notify them of move
• Discuss move with Wiscnet
• 3 months before move contact ISP to have fiber scheduled to be moved
• Have 3rd party come in to re-look at everything
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Timeline Continued
• Schedule tower move for weekend before move
• Call and verify help is still able to come
Before the move
• Resend E-mail stating school
network will be down for a
week
• Verify with companies
everything is in order
• Take Pictures
• Write down everything
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Port numbers for Servers
Order to which servers should go
up
Where things will go
• Label everything
Start the Move
• Friday before the move we removed the old tower for the old
school and put it up in the new position.
• Removed the receivers from the other schools
• Did one final walk through of what all needs to be done
• Resent email stating the network would be down and where to find
status updates
Day of the move
• Helpers come in and assist in un-racking servers
• Carefully placed them in my car to drive through town
• Re-rack them in the new environment
• Start piecing everything back together
• Internet never gets moved!!!!!
Day of continued
• Deal with internet
• Finish installing servers
• Start getting routes complete and servers talking
• Still no internet
• Take back Badgernet router
• Take back Lightspeed
• Create Frankenstein with network to get schools working
What we learned
• Learn to slide with the punches
• Have multiple backup plans
• It is good to have a plethora of help
• Be Prepared
• Be ready for things to go wrong
• Plan for the unplannable
What would be done different
• Have all confirmations done before the move
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Verify they are all confirmed
• Have all the different contacts’ information in a notebook
• Push even harder for fiber
Questions?