CAS18543 Migration from a Windows Environment to a SUSE® Linux Enterprise based Infrastructure Liberty Christian School Don Vosburg Systems Engineer
[email protected] [email protected] Who is Liberty Christian School? • Private school located in Anderson, IN, USA • Established 1976 • About 600 students in preK-12 • Two campuses - Elementary and MS/HS 2 The “before” picture LCS Technology Summary - 2009 • ~100 PC’s, 40% running Windows XP Home • No Classroom accessible PC’s or Laptops • Two low-end Dell servers hosting files – Each with a single desktop-class 250GB hard drive – All users with all rights to all shares • No imaging - all software individually installed on any PC as needed • Self-hosted proprietary email solution with no effective spam filtering 4 LCS Network Summary in 2009 • Wireless point-point connection between schools unreliable, slow (2 miles apart) • Single IP addressed, flat Class C network, causing excess broadcast traffic, limited devices • Low-end Linksys firewall at edge of a single Internet connection, limited flexibility and monitoring • No connections faster than 100Mbps 5 LCS User technology - 2009 • No centralized domain – Each user defined on the computer(s) they might use – No centralized printer administration or definition store • One student desktop lab in each building, no student access beyond that • No internally managed DNS – local host access defined on each PC by IP address • Proprietary content filter over-blocking, rendering Internet usage not worth the wait 6 Creating a better infrastructure