Data Storage Services and Systems - Descriptions, Availability

ECE ITS manages various types of data storage facilities, systems, and services for exclusive use by clients and partners within the College of Engineering and CMU-proper.

Offering Name	Description	Eligibility	Price	Details
Standard object storage	Object-based storage	ECE Research Faculty		Minimum quantity 1 TB Hosted on CEPH HDD hardware Basic data safety (fault tolerant with disaster recovery) 1 month short-term archiving 10Gbps network fabric within the ECE ITS data center environment
Ceph standard storage	Network filesystem mount to project or hosted virtual machine(s)	ECE Research Faculty with hosted project computing		Includes features of standard object storage Increased data safety and availability
Enterprise block storage	iSCSI storage target presented from AFS or hosted virtual machine	ECE Research Faculty with hosted project computing		Hosted on enterprise-class storage area network (SAN) with redundant controllers; multi-path I/O; large SSD cache with auto-tiering for hot data blocks Full fault tolerance with high availability Disaster recovery Eligible for long-term archiving (additional service and fee) Minimum quantity 1 TB Minimum term 1 yr
Long-term tape archival	Tape backup system using LTO medium	Any ECE data storage service hosted in the ITS data centers		Fully redundant daily backup to HDD for near-line recovery 24hr recovery point objective (RPO) within the current month; 1 mo RPO within the past 10yrs Monthly push to LTO tape Tapes stored off-site 10yr maximum archival period
Tape archival retrieval	Tape archive data retrieval service	Data stored on the ECE ITS tape archival system	$125.00 / hr	Typical labor time for retrieval is 1-2 hours 2 week recovery time objective (RTO)
Research computing HOME directory	AFS located storage for HOME profile and data	Clients who subscribe to ECE ITS monthly service	Included with monthly service fee	50 GB maximum per user Integrated with ECE ITS research computing environment Fully manageable security - see AFS ACL management Includes public_html directory viewable as an apache tilde home https://users.ece.cmu.edu/~[cmu_id]
Project directory	AFS located storage for group project data	Clients who subscribe to ECE ITS monthly service	Included with monthly service fee	100 GB maximum per project 1 project per person, groups may aggregate storage entitlement Integrated with ECE ITS research computing environment Fully manageable security - see AFS ACL management Includes public_html directory viewable as an apache tilde home https://users.ece.cmu.edu /~[project_name]