{"id":19306,"date":"2020-06-09T09:06:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T13:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=19306"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:04:57","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:04:57","slug":"miserver-delivers-significant-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/09\/miserver-delivers-significant-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"MiServer delivers significant improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"466\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280-700x466.jpg\" alt=\"&quot; &quot;\" class=\"wp-image-19310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280-700x466.jpg 700w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280-665x443.jpg 665w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption>(<a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/users\/geralt-9301\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=4789466\">Gerd Altmann<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=4789466\">Pixabay<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an ongoing effort to provide the best possible service to its customers, the MiServer team recently invested a tremendous amount of time and labor to bring quality enhancements to their managed virtual server environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over an 18-month period, the group worked extensively on replacing aging hardware, upgrading supporting infrastructure, and developing automation tools in an effort to bring about a much more robust and dependable service.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a result of all these newly-implemented improvements, MiServer customers can now look forward to not only increased performance, but also greater stability, reliability, and security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Notable highlights include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A greater number of newer high-quality host server hardware with more advanced CPU instruction sets that provide three times faster compute speeds.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A brand new and significantly faster storage array system that delivers a ten-fold reduction in latency, data encryption at rest, and synchronous replication between data centers.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>New network datacenter switches with redundant configuration and architecture to eliminate single points of failure.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Automated host and OS patching utilities and protocols designed to reduce maintenance times, promote consistent configurations, and facilitate regular updates to the environment.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The MiServer team, of course, is well aware that progress never ceases, and it\u2019s in this spirit they continue to focus on ways to best administer and improve their services, such as reducing the time it takes to request a new server, offering greater backup and restore capabilities, and reaching out to campus units to better understand and prioritize future needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an ongoing effort to provide the best possible service to its customers, the MiServer team recently invested a tremendous amount of time and labor to bring quality enhancements to their managed virtual server environment. Over an 18-month period, the group worked extensively on replacing aging hardware, upgrading supporting infrastructure, and developing automation tools in an effort to\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/09\/miserver-delivers-significant-improvements\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":19310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[133],"class_list":["post-19306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-projects-services","tag-miserver"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280.jpg",1280,853,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280-200x133.jpg",200,133,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280-768x512.jpg",665,443,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280-700x466.jpg",600,399,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280.jpg",1280,853,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280.jpg",1280,853,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280-665x443.jpg",665,443,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/ball-4789466_1280.jpg",375,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Steve Kolasa, ITS Virtualization Cloud Infrastructure Team","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/skolasa\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"In an ongoing effort to provide the best possible service to its customers, the MiServer team recently invested a tremendous amount of time and labor to bring quality enhancements to their managed virtual server environment. 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