CSULB将增加的计算能力掌握在学生和教职员工手中

解决方案

在考虑了各种供应商的解决方案和测试解决方案之后，CSULB迁移到Nutanix Enterprise Cloud。如今，该解决方案正在新的数据中心设施中运行大约450台虚拟机（VM），以支持大学最重要的软件包和服务。

“我们依靠Nutanix来支持我们的核心企业应用程序；Microsoft SQL Server数据库，商业智能服务器，Oracle数据库以及我们所有的身份管理和身份验证服务。” Santana说。“该大学的招生和成像系统，用于学生应用程序处理，全部在Nutanix上运行，所有Active Directory Directory域控制器和基础架构服务也是如此。”

Nutanix Enterprise Cloud使Santana及其团队能够通过基于软件的方法来简化大学的孤立基础架构，从而简化其处理并加快对新技术服务的配置。

“Our responsiveness has improved significantly,” says Santana. “I just finished provisioning a set of new VMs, a process which previously took a few hours, now only takes 10 minutes,” adds Gomez.

Nutanix also provides a nimble, scalable environment to deliver Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) applications to students across the campus community. In the past, access to advanced applications for science and engineering was often limited.

“Much of this software was available only in labs or at the library, which have limited hours,” says Tom Tran, IT Consultant at CSULB. “During peak periods like final exams, students faced long waits, and might have to hunt down which labs were available. They could purchase the software they needed at the bookstore, but it was expensive and required a great deal of computing power.”

Nutanix lets the University offer access to high-performance applications like Mathematica, MATLAB, AutoCAD, and the R software environment using the device of their choice, anywhere. Nvidia’s GPU integration accelerates the VDI delivery so the performance and user experience is similar what it would be on a local machine.

BENEFITS

创新的跳板

更简单，更高效的IT管理和资源供应为大学的IT小组开辟了新的机会，使他们能够为教职员工和研究人员提供以前没有资源的IT项目，从而将黑板的想法从黑板中纳入现实世界。一个这样的例子是针对海洋生物学家克里斯·洛（Chris Lowe）博士，他的鲨鱼实验室研究了南加州的婴儿和少年白鲨鱼，并为这种神秘的物种贡献了知识领域。

“We recently provisioned a set of VMs for a new research project for Dr. Chris Lowe,” says Santana. “Dr. Lowe and his team have received a grant to tag sharks in the area and monitor their movement along the West Coast. Eventually, everyone will be able to access this environment and track sharks in the area in real time. The Nutanix Enterprise Cloud is being used to support the software development in house, and maintain the application once it goes live.”

简化了IT操作

Nutanix is also helping IT manage the University’s environment more efficiently, even with a small staff.

Santana说：“ Nutanix Enterprise Cloud有助于CSULB减少机架空间，并最大程度地减少数据中心功率和冷却​​要求。”“我的SAN管理员可以自由从事其他项目，因为现在只有一个团队管理整个环境。这提高了效率，推动了强劲的投资回报。”

The advanced hyperconverged environment also improves performance, enabling administrators to work more effectively.

Santana说：“我们最大的客户之一的入学服务已经注意到他们的服务器要快得多，自从我们切换以来，我们经历的性能问题较少。”“整个环境变得更加稳定，因此我们不必担心意外的停机时间。”

Nutanix automatically alerts IT staff about potential issues, for faster troubleshooting.

戈麦斯说：“积极的支持也很有帮助。”“如果周末驱动器失败，则会自动创建票。在星期一早上，我们可以查看机票，确认该问题并在同一天解决。”

到处都是实验室质量计算

扩大对VDI应用程序的支持也已经支付了股息，使学生在最需要的时候更加可用。

Tran说：“我们的CIO建议我们，我们数学系的主席对我们提供的软件的性能和可用性非常满意。”“现在，学生可以使用自己的设备访问他们需要的资源。他们不再需要在上课或在实验室工作之间进行选择。”

CSULB可以支持数百个并发用户，并且在需求增长时可以轻松扩展其VDI产品。

“As the environment becomes more popular we will continue to grow it out,” says Tran. “We monitor concurrent usage of all our applications, and as we reach capacity we can add licenses as needed.”

下一步

Nutanix was built to scale and evolve, and CSULB is already considering new capabilities to make technology access even easier—and more cost-effective. For example, as licensing costs on its existing hypervisor increase, Santana and his team are evaluating Nutanix AHV for integrated virtualization management.

“We are actively exploring AHV, and are moving toward standing up a development environment,” says Santana. “We are also evaluating Prism as a way to allow our customers to provision their own VMs. We want to move beyond our current email-based system and empower our customers to provision themselves.”

桑塔纳（Santana）有了纳尼克斯（Nutanix），他的小型IT组织可以继续在未来的情况下继续实现不断变化的优先事项。