Universidad de Málaga (University of Malaga, UMA) is a center for higher education covering 4 campuses, 19 faculties, 65 undergraduate courses and postgraduate programs, with some 3800 staff and 40,000 students, located on the Costa del Sol in southern Spain.
Many thanks to UMA Administration for permission to publish this data.
UMA is a significant user of VMS and the largest WASD site, both in terms of deployment and throughput, that the author is aware of. Since first migrating to WASD in 2003 use of Web services has outgrown its original single ES40 with 4 CPUs and 4GB, to currently being hosted across a cluster of four systems; an ES45 with 3 CPUs and 16GB, ES40 with 4 CPUs and 20GB, ES40 with 4 CPUs and 4GB, along with a DS20E 666 MH 2 CPU 1024MB. All four run under OpenVMS 8.3 and TCP/IP Services 5.6 from a single WASD installation. An imminent move to Itanium blades will ensure future growth potential. UMA's Web hosts some 160 virtual servers providing from basic, static Web content to sophisticated Web applications, including the University's resulting and registration systems.
During a 200 day period, basically February through to August 2009, UMA WASD registered some four terabytes in network traffic - yes, that's 4TB, or more precisely 4,106,605,220,049 bytes (totalled across three systems at snapshot). The previously reported maximum was 2TB over 131 days in 2007. The 4.1TB network traffic were responses from some 72 million network connections and 300 million requests. Also note the system and cluster up-times.
The following images show the basic statistics from WASD's reporting facility on the three primary systems.
Note: These statistics were zeroed when the then current WASD version 9.3 was replaced so that UMA could participate in the WASD v10 BETA field test. Thanks for that invaluable contribution Uni Malaga. The general rule is if it doesn't break at UMA it's probably not going to break anywhere!
Mark
Daniel
15-AUG-2009