ARCHIVED: At IU, what is IUFS?

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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
Minimum allocation 100 GB
Maximum allocation
Requests greater than 20 TB require advance notice
Allocation cost (charges billed for allocation, not actual usage)
$.35 per GB per year; billing is annual
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
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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Last modified on 2018-01-18 17:10:11.