Co-location details and requirements

Owned by Ryan Ahn
Last updated: Apr 19, 2023 by Matthew Verlis
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The hosting environment

  • Servers are placed within a research dedicated VRF with a default deny off-campus/default allow on-campus Firewall zone (Zone8)

  • IST recommends researcher install host based firewalls 

  • Area8 can access IST production servers only for DNS/DHCP/NTP/Kerberos/LDAP services

  • All equipment and software are subject to all campus policies related to computing/networking

  • All change requests must come from a single Point of Contact (POC); or the POC must be CC'd and approve the requested change

  • Firewall rules are host specific

  • All physical access is ESCORTED access (expected to be less than 2 instances/year) - 24x7 coverage

  • Special cases (PCI/DSS, Government of Canada protected/classified) are on a case-by-case basis

IP addressing

  • A common out of band (OOB) management subnet

  • OOB subnet accessible via a common Windows JumpBox

  • JumpBox is accessible from On-campus or via restricted [Nexus AD group] VPN

  • Common public data subnet available with ipv6 – static addressing ipv4 and ipv6

  • Common private data subnet available with ipv6 – static addressing ipv4 and ipv6

Server requirements

The server must:

  • Be 19" rack mountable ideally with square hole rack kit   

  • Have dual power supplies accepting C13/C15/C19 with 208V+ (Note: we do not have 120V capacity)

  • Have a remote access ability ‘enterprise remote access’ (Dell:iDRAC, Oracle:iLOM, HP:iLO, IBM: IMM)

  • 1G RJ45, 10G RJ45 or 10G SFP+ network adapters

  • To utilize redundancy built within the datacentre, servers should have 2x network adapters and support Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

Research hosting

  • Faculty supported researchers can install physical hardware into IST Datacentre (East Campus 2, EC2)

  • IST is only able to support the physical and logical infrastructure 

  • While every effort will be made to host researcher equipment, not all systems can be hosted within this environment

  • IST cannot host High Performance Computing clusters or other like systems

  • IST will not host servers for commercial purposes or hosting sites or applications offering commercial products or services

  • Systems hosting regulated data must be identified (eg: PCI/DSS, HIPAA, Protected) and will be approved on a case-by-case basis