School of Information Technology Fort Gordon, GA Virtualization Project MAJ Gregory Motes CW3 Armond Rouillard

1
School of Information TechnologyFort Gordon,
GAVirtualization ProjectMAJ Gregory MotesCW3
Armond Rouillard
2
Agenda

• Overview of the School of Information Technology
• Goal of Classroom Virtualization
• Current Configuration
• Limits
• Training Offered
• Benefits of Virtualization
• Physical Topology
• Future Goals

3
Overview of the School of Information Technology
Who, What, Why, and How of SIT
TASK Train Army Automation workforce in NM, IDM,
IA. PURPOSE To defend, monitor, operate,
maintain continual automation services that
enable the Commanders communication,
management, and transfer of data.
HOW Unique industry partnerships that enable
rapid training development and long term
educational and training opportunities
WHO NCOs, civilians, Warrant Officers, 25As,
FA24s, FA53s
HOW Unique academic partnerships for degree
opportunities
4
School of Information Technology Training and
Support

• Functional

Initial Professional Military Education
Support to the Warfighter

• Signal Basic Officer Leadership Course
• Signal Captains Career Course
• Warrant Officer Basic (250N, 251A, 254A)
• Warrant Officer Advanced (250N, 251A, 254A)
• Telecommunications Systems (FA 24) Course
• Information Systems Management (FA 53) Course
• IT portions of S6, and 25B NCOES

• CISSP (2 weeks)
• Security (1 week)
• Network Management Sec (1 week)
• Windows Security Course (1 week)
• Computer Network Defense Course (CNDC) (2 weeks)
• Unix Level III (1 week) Security for Unix
  administrators and managers
• Local COMSEC Management Software (LCMS) (2 weeks)
• Standardized COMSEC Custodian Course (2 weeks)

• Joint C4 Planners Course
• Signal Staff Officer (S6) Course
• Joint Automated Communications Engineering System
  (JACES)
• Army-wide Information Assurance Leader Training
• Info Assurance levels I, II, and III Training
  CISSP Security
• Mobile training teams at your location request
  _at_ ia.signal.army.mil
• Support to PM validation exercises TOCFEST,
  MCS, and BCCS

Core Competencies 25BBNCOC 25BANCOC 250NWOBC 254AWOBC 53A 24A
Network Management 160 hrs   80 hrs  480 hrs 400 hrs  400 hrs 800 hrs
Information Dissemination  120 hrs  40 hrs   360 hrs  480 hrs  100 hrs
Computer Network Defense / Information Security 40 hrs 40 hrs  96 hrs  104 hrs  250 hrs  250 hrs
Digital Tactical Operations / CAPSTONE Training 40 hrs 40 hrs 144 hrs   230 hrs  88 hrs  88 hrs
IA Certification Goals IAT II S IAT II, S IAT II S IAT II S IAT/IAM III CISSP IAT/IAM III CISSP
Annual graduates   480 260 40 48   120   40
Training based on and focused for the
Contemporary Operating Environment Executive
Leadership Visits Briefings, DOIM Support to
Warfighters, NETOPS, Information Assurance,
Spectrum Operations, ARFORGEN Process, Tactical
Operations, Military Decision Making, CTC and
CALL Inputs
5
Goal of Classroom Virtualization
6
Current Configuration

• 18 Classrooms in Cobb Hall
• Each Classroom contains20 student machines
• Typically Dells, Windows Server 2003
• Training material installedon all machines

7
Limits of Current Configuration

• Frequent image / class material changesrequire
  redeployment to a large numberof machines
• Students must move between classroomsto receive
  all required training becauseof limited hard
  drive space
• High end workstations required for student
  machines
• Classroom redeployment takes from sixhours to 3
  days each reset
• No central management of master images
• No availability of a lab environment

8
Training Offered
Virtual Machines per Student

• Diverse offering of classes
• Each student configuration requires multiple
  virtual machines
• Additional machines required for testing and
  performance evaluation

9
Benefits of Virtualization
10
Physical Topology

• 25 Hewlett Packard Proliant DL-360G Servers
• NetApp FAS-3140 Storage Solution
• Cisco 4510 Catalyst Switch
• Cisco 2960G Switch for each classroom (x18)

11
Long Term Goals
12
Questions?

• School of Information Technology
• Fort Gordon, Georgia