Systems and Data Infrastructure

Joining the Campus’ Windows Active Directory Infrastructure gives a group the benefits of integration with many UC Berkeley systems while allowing it to retain considerable autonomy in its local domain.

Data & Platform Services manages the UC Berkeley Active Directory to address issues such as:

Citrix services are intended for UC Berkeley enterprise applications. Citrix provides a secure one-stop shop for certain UC Berkeley applications not installed on your computer (e.g. CalPlanning). This eliminates compatibility and security issues, such as the need to run a specific web browser version for each application.

The Citrix Receiver replaces the traditional Remote Desktop Connection. It provides better scalability and a more consistent user experience between Mac, Windows, Linux and other devices.

Requirements

We provide colocation services in the campus Data Center, providing customers a secure location and network connectivity for housing mission-critical servers. The campus Data Center is a hardened facility that provides a precision environment for the housing of mission-critical servers and related equipment. The facility is connected to the campus backbone network via two separate 100-Gigabit trunks for high availability. Customers are provided rack space in lockable cabinets with dual power connections, backup UPS, remote management access for servers, hardware installation assistance,...

The Dedicated Virtual Compute Cluster service offers a hosted virtual infrastructure that gives greater flexibility and visibility to departmental system administrators. Berkeley IT maintains the hardware and hypervisor layers in this environment and leaves the provisioning of virtual private servers (VPS) to local system administrators.

The underlying hardware configuration consists of Dell R640s with 576GB RAM and dual Intel Xeon Gold 6154/6254 processors (72 total cores at 3.1GHz), two built-in 64GB HBAs for fiber attached SAN storage, and redundant 10GB network...

There are several storage options available to faculty and staff. All options provide high availability and are scalable but the features of each vary along with how they are billed. See the Comparison Table below to select the option that best fits your needs.

We deliver IT resiliency, business continuity solutions and services for campus applications administered by Berkeley IT, both locally and at UC Berkeley’s fail-over site, the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC). Business continuity is defined as keeping the enterprise functional no matter where it is being executed, locally or remotely, and ensures that the enterprise functionality will be available to its customers and users at all times. There are three components to business continuity:

The UNIX team offers managed systems administration for Berkeley IT-hosted Linux servers located in the UC Berkeley and San Diego Super Computing Center data centers. This service is offered at a Standard (business hours) or Extended (24x7) level.

Comparison of Features for Each Support Level

UCBackup provides a centralized, network based backup and recovery service for computer systems on the UC Berkeley campus as well as servers at the San Diego Super Computing Center (SDSC). It protects computers from data loss due to accidental file deletion or corruption, hard drive failure, or system upgrade.

Key Features