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Disaster Recovery And Other Stuff

Jay Weaver, Network Manager @ Bank of Utah jweaver@bankofutah.com Chris McIntyre IT Data Center Manager cmcintyre@bankofutah.com

Overview of IT DR Plan

What it used to be like Locations Data Centers Network Topology Equipment

AKA Business Continuity Plan Completed Business Impact Analysis Found what is important Management gave time frames We build systems to accomplish time frames

Recovery Group 1 is 0‐12 hrs Recovery Group 2 is 12‐24 hrs Recovery Group 3 is 24‐72 hrs

14 Retail Banking Locations 4 Mortgage Only Locations 1 Corporate Trust Location 2 Data Centers

IBM I Power 7 for core processing

64 GB of Memory 1.5 TB of SSD No HDD QEDD Data Replication

IBM Flex

2 Chassis' totaling 7 Compute Nodes Each Node has 2 Proc with 8 Cores & 132 GB RAM 10 GB switch / possible 40 GB

NetApp Storage

Model FAS3240 54 TB of usable space on 76 spindles Redundant Controllers Snapshots Replication

Backup DC Primary DC Internet 300 Mbit 10 Mbit

Disaster Declared IBM QEDD replication is stopped Scripted network routing changes are run Fiserv subsystem is started on IBM i Script to restore Windows servers is run

Creates FlexClones of NetApp data volumes Attaches cloned data volumes to VMWare via NFS Turns on Virtual Servers

The Past

Previous years would take 48 hours PLUS using Evault IT Personnel would work continuously for 48 hours Systems were slow Not sure if everything works, odds and ends.

Present

Group 1 Recovery completed in 6 Minutes Entire environment functional in under 10 Minutes Testers were unable to tell the difference

We know that full DR is possible Other solutions forced a forklift of core network

switches

Less cable mess and expertise Greater Performance Expandability Interoperability – x86 and System I

Resource Consumption