ARCHIVED: At IU, what is IUFS?
Indiana University File Storage (IUFS), Release 1, is a centralized storage system designed to support Intelligent Infrastructure Basic (II-Basic) customers. IUFS is based on IBM's General Parallel File System and accessible via Samba (SMB) to II-Basic virtual machines (VMs). IUFS systems reside in physically secure environments on the IU Bloomington and IUPUI campuses, and data is replicated between the two locations.
Because Release 1 of IUFS is available solely via II-Basic, a request for IUFS storage is made by completing the request form for an II-Basic VM.
The capabilities and costs of the system are as follows:
Use case | Applications serving data to users; only available to
II-Basic VMs
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Minimum allocation | 100 GB |
Maximum allocation | Requests greater than 20 TB require advance notice
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Allocation cost (charges billed for allocation, not actual usage) |
$.35 per GB per year; billing is annual
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Access method | SMB mapped drive |
HIPAA alignment | No |
Snapshot frequency | Daily |
Snapshot retention period | 30 days |
Full backup services available |
Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM), $.35
per GB per year
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Hardware infrastructure | Designed with highly redundant hardware, leveraging high
availability clustering technology. Proactively monitored by
system-level infrastructure tools. On-call support for physical
hardware failures available 24/7/365.
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