Status of W2K at INFN

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Status of W2K at INFN
Gian Piero Siroli, Dept. of Physics, Univ. of
Bologna and INFN HEPiX-HEPNT 2000, Jefferson Lab.
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INFN sites and labs
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Installed Windows systems

• From very recent poll results (by R. Gomezel)
• Windows 9x 31 of total number of installed
  systems
• Windows/NT 16 (sum of Windows systems 47)
• Linux 18, MacOS 17, Digital/Compaq UNIX 5,
  Sun 3
• PC is the main hardware platform for desktops

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Windows 2000 systems

• W2000 systems (rough estimate)
• Currently about 150 installed nodes
• Some activity is already starting in a few sites
• General trend
• Many sites are starting making experience in W2K
  management
• Some native and W2K-W/NT mixed domains
• A few services based on W2K already in production
  (Web server, RAS, Metaframe)
• Deployment of a W2K infrastructure and services
  already foreseen in a few sites in the
  short/medium term

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Activity on W2000

• Workgroup on W2K created by INFN Computing
  Committee in late spring to study and propose the
  architecture best suited to the organization
  (domain tree or forest, structure of OUs). Final
  document expected by end of year 2000.
• Experience based also on previous NICE
  infrastructure (single W/NT domain over WAN
  deployed in 8 sites)
• Building w2k test domain over WAN (root domain
  w2k.infn.it through gt2Mb lines) still in initial
  learning phase

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w2k.infn.it test domain under construction
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12Mb
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W2K test domain

• Participating sites (subdomains) CNAF, Lecce,
  Trieste, Milano, Napoli, Bologna (not all
  connected yet)
• Native mode domain
• MS DNS
• Some problem in testing Remote Installation
  Services (RIS)
• Terminal Services (over WAN, also for monitoring
  and/or debugging)
• Application Server (published applications,
  Office installation over WAN through 2Mb link
  CNAF-Lecce)
• Limited tests on domain-wide user groups (to
  manage inter-site resources)
• Good experience with Vmware useful for tests
  without dedicated hardware no evidence of
  problems with Vmware layer

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Planned future activities

• Non MS DNS
• Security (router ports)
• RIPrep (Remote Installation Preparation to clone
  desktop configurations and applications)
• Unix integration (user migration between Win and
  UNIX)
• AFS (Kerberos interoperability)
• Samba (UNIX resources served to Win) VS Services
  for UNIX
• DFS
• MSI files for non-MS applications
• Physics applications!?

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Summary

• INFN W2K deploying starting slowly (learning and
  testing)
• INFN is evaluating and planning a possible
  implementation scheme and deployment in the near
  future
• A close collaboration and coordination among W2K
  HEP sites is considered extremely important in
  sharing experiences and deal with common problems