UMF Cloud Pilot: architecturing an IaaS offer for higher education
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The document summarizes the UMF Cloud Pilot project run by Eduserv to design and operate a community cloud infrastructure for UK higher education. The cloud will provide compute, storage and networking resources delivered from Eduserv's new datacenter. Key aspects include using Cisco UCS and Isilon technologies, supporting both vCloud and OpenStack platforms, and establishing sustainable business models for ongoing operation after the initial funding period ends. Pricing and service details will be finalized by end of year with general availability of resources.
UMF Cloud Pilot: architecturing an IaaS offer for higher education
- 1. UMF Cloud Pilotarchitecting an IaaS offerfor higher educationandy.powell@eduserv.org.uk@andypowe11
- 2. Summarybackgroundthe UMF Cloud Pilotdesign decisions (so far)business models and sustainability
- 3. University Modernisation Fund£12.5 million from HEFCE to encourage uptake of shared services in HEefficiency and value for money as key driverschannelled thru the JISC Shared Servicesand the Cloud programmeresearch and administrative computingJANET Brokerage, DCC and Eduserv4 SaaS projectsRMAS, DARE and ESBrunning until end of March 2012
- 4. About Eduservnot-for-profit IT services companybest known in academia for OpenAthens and CHESTweb hosting and development for government sector20 year sustainable track record of growth>3.5m registered users of Eduserv-based services115 staff - turnover of £16.5m in 2009/10new datacentre in Swindon specifically foreducation and the public sectorcharitable mission to encourage theeffective use of ICT in ‘public good’organisations
- 5. UMF Cloud Pilot overviewcompute and storage cloud infrastructuredesigned to address the major concerns of HEIsdata remains in the UK at all timesoperated for the long-term benefitof the UK academic sectorintegrated with the JANET networklower the costs associatedwith IT provisioning
- 6. Community Cloud Infrastructurebuilt to support the UMF Cloud Pilot and other initiativesdesigned to support multiple cloud platforms and sectorswill be price-competitive with other cloud providersUMF Cloud Pilot to run for 1 yearkey outcome is to establish sustainable business modelsEduserv investing for long-termdevelopment of the servicepost-funding (April 2012) Eduservwillcontinue to operate the serviceon a commercial basis
- 7. Delivered fromour Swindon Data Centrecapacity and power for >600 racks of infrastructuremodular designPUE efficiency design of <1.4JANET backbone connectivity vianewJANET PoP
- 8. Service levels and resilienceoperated by Eduserv24 x 7 systems monitoring and supportminimum 99.9% SLAdesire to launch secondary site during 2012support for automated replication ofdata between siteswill deliver multi-site replicationand failoverequivalent to Amazon AWS“Regions”
- 9. Architected for scalabilityCisco UCS blade infrastructuredual 6-core 3.06GHz processors with 64GB RAMdesigned to scale to >1,500 cores, 8TB of RAM per ‘pod’multiple ‘pods’Isilon storageclustered NAS solution with near-SAN performancescalable to 10PB usableconnectivity2-tier Cisco switched network (core anddistribution)fully resilient with no single point offailure (including dual path toJANET PoP)all ports running at 10 Gbit/s
- 10. Our offervCloud ComputeOpenStack ComputeVM StorageFile StorageJANET connectivityall accessed via a self-service portalintegrated with the UK AccessManagementFederation… with possibility of long termtapearchiving in the future
- 11. TimescalesnowvCloudCompute ‘lab’ environment for use by UMF-funded SaaS projectsby end of the yearpricing details (mid-October)vCloudCompute general availabilityearly 2012self-service Web portalOpenStack Compute availabilityFile Storage beta
- 12. Design decisionsCisco UCSgood fit with other activities, options for offering blade leasingIsilonNAS with SAN-like performance, flexible capacity, no single point of failureVMwaregood fit with institutional vSphere servicesOpenStackgood backing from industry,where OSS momentum seemsto be
- 13. Business models / sustainabilityfor us, ‘cloud’ is part of a spectrum that spans co-lo right up to highly managed servicesour cloud offer is geared to both the ‘institution’ and to ‘individuals’competitive pricing (<Amazon)billing – credit card and invoicepolicies for security, SLA,privacy, etc.announcing pricing mid-October
- 14. vCloud pricing model‘enterprise’ offer primarily for institutions (rather than individuals)virtual datacentre ‘tariff’ modelmonthly commitment (compute and storage)invoice-based billingfree introductory tier (probably lasting 2 or 3 months)pay-as-you-go model to meet short term requirementsnote that vCloud will carry pricepremium to meet VMwarelicensing costs
- 15. OpenStack pricing modeldesigned to appeal to individual researcherspay-as-you-go (hourly) modelinstance sizes comparable with Amazonpayment by credit card / Paypalintroductory free tier – 12 months ofa micro instancebe interested in views on a morepredictable ‘tariff’ model forresearchers?
- 16. Storage pricing modelpriced both as part of ‘virtual datacentre’ tariff model and separately as pay-as-you-golooking at whether we price VM Storage and File Storage separately or have single storage offer and let Isilon migrate storage automatically
- 17. Connectivity pricing modeldata transfer will be free (in and out)public IP addresses above the standard allocation (probably one per customer) will be charged on a monthly basis
- 18. Concluding remarkswe’d welcome feedback on:the cloud platforms we supportintegration with campus authenticationpricing and billing modelsanything else…get in touch at umfcloudpilot.eduserv.org.uk(where we are also blogging our progress)