The CUIT Infrastructure Support Services team provisions physical and virtual servers and provides Operating System (OS) administration services in support of the VMWare, RH LINUX, Windows, Solaris and AIX platforms to ensure timely response to requests, incidents, optimal performance and security.
Provisioning of new server services can include:
Bare Metal Physical
Legacy Virtual Farm
Maintenance and management of virtual server environment
Maintenance and management of blade center environment
Maintenance and management of stand-alone physical servers
Installation of Operating System (Microsoft, Solaris, AIX, Linux)
Operating System (OS) configuration (scripts and manual)
Performing server operating system maintenance/upgrades
Design and maintenance of directory services (Microsoft Active Directory & Kerberos)
Design and maintenance of authentication and access control services to servers
Installation and maintenance of server management software
Monitoring of server performance
Break/fix analysis and troubleshooting server problems and failures
Monitoring server capacity and utilization
Planning for future capacity requirements and upgrades, including the gathering of trend stats for growth analysis and forecasting to determine possible hardware upgrades (cpu, memory, disk)
Server backups
Server security
Disaster Recovery (DR) planning and Disaster Recovery exercise support for managed servers
Advice and assistance with purchases of new servers
