Myton School – Warwickshire - Tom Brocklehurst, Network Manager
NS Optimum started working with Myton School in 2012 when they installed the fibre optic and CAT6 structured data cable into the new classroom blocks. The work was carried out to a high standard with minimal disruption and due to this good experience we invited NS Optimum back in 2013 to discuss the upgrade of the schools 900 workstation curriculum network to Windows 7 Professional and Server 2012 with Hyper-V along with Intel based SAN storage systems and a 10GB backbone.
Following a review of the schools existing infrastructure and some in-depth discussions, we came up with a solution that gave the school a fast and reliable 10GB core server and switch infrastructure and we proceeded to carry out the installation of the 8 x server upgrade & school-wide network reimage during the 2013 summer holidays. To ensure the smooth operation of the new network we supplied an NS Optimum Technician for 1 day per week for the first term and the network is also supported with a ‘Silver’ onsite and remote emergency support. Our partnership with Myton School continues to develop and NS Optimum has supplied Windows 8 tablets and iPads as well as the rolling replacement of PC workstations.
The upgrade to a Server 2012 Hyper-V server configuration & Windows 7 Pro workstations saw NS Optimum replace the server hardware. Three Virtual Hosts and two 10TB SAN storage servers with 900GB SAS drives and SSD cachecade with battery backup on the RAID cards, were supplied and installed giving ultra-high performance storage. A new admin server and domain controller were installed and utilising Microsoft Data Protection Manager (DPM), we provided a constant trickle backup to a new DPM backup server in a remote location within the campus. All is connected together using its own dedicated 10GB blade in the HP core switch giving full wirespeed data transfer at 10GB on a high performance back plane.
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"A large part of the success of the project was, I am certain, down to the excellent technical resource that NS Optimum were able to provide. This was important during the planning phase and equally instrumental in ensuring timely completion. ...I would have no hesitation in recommending them."
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