Information Systems:Iptor DC1 In Production
Hardware
uniPHARM purchased an extra hard drive storage chassis with refurbished spinning drives that are attached to the Power8. The extra storage added 2TB to the Bart partition and extended the RAID arrays with the extra drives. The OS in the Bart partition is controlling how the drives are arranged in which type of RAID array. The OS is also balancing the data across all disks in both original and second chassis.
Hardware Purchase Details
The purchase order number for the hardware involved in this project is 8230073
Hardware Support
uniPHARM has a hardware maintenance contract with IBM that includes the extra storage on the Power8 until March of 2020
Iptor DC1 Installed On The Power8
The installation files for Iptor DC1 were downloaded from Iptor in June of 2018 and saved into a shared folder on the IFS called UWDDATA\downloads\iptor. Luis Meleiro from Protello installed the ERP package from the downloaded save files. uniPHARM I.S. staff did not participate in the actual install, however installing an ERP package is best left to subject matter experts that have done it once or twice before.
XT GUI Server
The vSphere (ESX) hypervisor is installed on the USB thumb drive
XT GUI Client
During Stage 1 of the VCSA setup, the following settings were used
Aperio Installed On The Power8
- The URL for vCenter Flash site is https://vcsa.unipharm.local/vsphere-client/
Aperio API Information
Place for any information related to how the Aperio API works
VUM VMware Update Manager
VUM has been configured with a dynamic baseline
vCenter Alarm Configuration
vCenter has been configured to use a small number of alarms
Content Library
Within vCenter, a content library called uniPHARM Content Library has been created.
Virtual Machines
A virtual machine is like a bucket.
VCSA
The vCenter appliance VM was created with all the default settings
XClarity
XClarity is a software based virtual appliance from Lenovo
Thermoprofile
This is the first physical server to be converted into a virtual machine:
This is the third physical server to be converted into a virtual machine:
SuperServer
This is the fourth physical server to be converted into a virtual machine:
WindowsXP JetDirect
DarrenF created this VM a long time ago
Lucy
This is the second physical server to be converted into a virtual machine:
Smithers
This is the fifth physical server to be converted into a virtual machine:
WDS
This is a new virtual machine created (not converted) with a fresh Windows Server 2012R2 OS install
UWDDC1
This is a new virtual machine created (not converted) with a fresh Windows Server 2012R2 OS install to act as an Active Directory Domain Controller.
UWDDC2
This is a new virtual machine created (not converted) with a fresh Windows Server 2012R2 OS install to act as an Active Directory Domain Controller.
XTGUI
This is a new virtual machine created (not converted) with a fresh Windows Server 2012R2 OS install to act as a server for the Iptor XT GUI.
Third Host Used For Testing
On Monday May 28, 2018 a third host server was added to the VMware cluster.
VMware Tools
VMware Tools is a package of tools and drivers that most virtual machines need
vCenter Standalone Converter
The vCenter Standalone Converter is a badly named application that converts real physical computers into virtual machines running on a host.
VMware Licensing And Support
uniPHARM has purchased a vSphere 6 Essentials Plus Kit that includes vCenter.
Backups
Veeam
As of May 2018, uniPHARM is evaluating Veeam Backup And Replication 9.5 as the platform used to do backups of VMware infrastructure and VM's. This section is mostly a placeholder but the sub sections are full of relevant documentation.
Hardware
On December 20, 2010, uniPHARM purchased an IBM x3650 M3 server from Anisoft
Veeam Software Installation
In May of 2018, Veeam Backup And Replication 9.5 was installed.
Veeam Licensing
We will probably get perpetual licensing with renewable annual support
What Is Veeam Backing Up?
Veeam will be able to backup the VM's and itself and whatever few remaining physical servers that are still in use.
Backup Strategy And Scheduled Jobs
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How Veeam Uses Tape Hardware
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Veeam Technical Support
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Change Log - Try And Record Any Major Configuration Or Software/Hardware Changes To The Infrastructure Here
- Both servers have their UEFI/BIOS set to only boot from the USB thumb drive
- Both servers have their UEFI/BIOS set to use maximum performance in the power settings as per this KB article https://www.ibm.com/support/home/docdisplay?lndocid=migr-5098137
- Initial ESX version installed on March 21, 2018 is 6.5.0 Build 7388607