PCTAcad Components

Tags PCTACAD

Below is a list of components used to provide the PCTAcad Environment

Datacenter Network:

  • Manufacturer: Cisco Systems
  • Technology: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) - Information
  • Spine switches: Cisco Nexus 9332C ACI Spine switch with 32p 40/100G QSFP28, 2p 1/10G SFP
  • Leaf Switches Datacenter DJGC: N9K-C93180YC-FX3 - Cisco Nexus 9300 with 48p 1/10G/25G SFP28 ports and 6p 40G/100G QSFP28 ports
  • Leaf Switches Datacenter BTC: N9K-C93180YC-FX - Cisco Nexus 9300 with 48p 1/10G/25G SFP+ and 6p 40G/100G QSFP28, MACsec, and Unified Ports

Storage:

  • Manufacturer: NetApp 
  • Model: AFF A30  Information Specification
  • Disk Drives: Qty 18 x 7.6TB NVMe4 Self Encrypting Drives,  Raid-DP 99TB usable
  • Network: 4 Port 10/25Gb,  Qty 2 x 25Gb Connected to redundant datacenter switches via Direct Attached Cables
  • Power Supplies: Qty 2 x 1600W Titanium Efficiency
  • Capabilities: in-line de-duplication and compression, VM storage operation offloading VAAI
  • VM Datastores provided via NFS

Servers:

  • Manufacturer: Cisco Systems
  • Type: Rack Mount
  • Model: UCS C220 M8S   Datasheet  Configuration Guide
  • Server Quantity 4,  2 in each on-campus datacenter
  • CPU: Qty 2 x Intel Xeon 6527P - 24 cores @ 3.0 GHz,   Specification
  • Memory: Qty 32 x 64 GB = 2048 GB @ 5200 MHz Configuration Guide
  • Storage: Qty 2 Boot Optimized M.2 Raid, Micron 240GB, Raid 1
  • TPM 2.0
  • Power Supplies: Qty 2 x 1600w  80Plus Platinum Efficiency 
  • Network: Quad Port UCS VIC 15427.  2 x 25Gb Connected to redundant datacenter switches via Direct Attached Cables SFP-H25G-CU5M

ESXi and vCenter:

  • Each physical server has 2 x 25g connections with 8 virtual nics
  • vSwitch0: Management - ESXi Host,  ITS Servers Public, ITS Servers Private, ITS Servers Workstations
    • vmnic0, vmnic1
  • vSwitch1: NFS
    • vmnic2, vmnic3
  • vSwitch2: vMotion
    • vmnic4, vmnic5
  • vDS: faculty and Student pods
    • vmnic6, vmnic7

Authentication: 

  • SSO and SCIM provisioning to vSphere vCenter using Microsoft Entra ID - Reference

Software:

  • Virtualization:  Broadcom - VMWare vSphere VVF
  • NetApp OnTap Tools for VMware
  • NetApp SnapCenter for VMware vSphere
  • Logic Monitor Monitoring

 

 

 

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