Hybrid Multi-Cloud • Education • Microsoft
Moodle on Azure at an educational institution
The availability of the Moodle platform was ensured to accommodate the growth of virtual students identified during the pandemic.
About the client
It is a socially responsible, autonomous, and public institution of higher education with a commitment to service.
It comprehensively educates competent, critical, ethical professionals with civic and environmental awareness.
Needs
The educational institution currently uses Moodle as a teaching tool for its 26,000 students, distributing content through 8,000 courses hosted on the platform. The university is seeking to migrate its Moodle services to Microsoft Azure to create a more robust platform capable of backing up different solution components.
The composition of the Moodle service is as follows:
– Moodle version 3.9
– 1 web balancer
– 4 Linux web servers with CentOS
– MySQL database server with a 250 GB HDD
– CentOS file server with 4 TB, utilizing 3.5 TB
– CentOS session server with Redis
– Concurrent users on the platform range from 1,300 to a maximum of 1,700, not exceeding 2,000.
Solution
Nubiral provides its team of professional services to the client to carry out the correct migration, infrastructure adaptation, and deployment of services on Microsoft Azure.
WORK PLAN:
Stage 1 – Information Gathering:
– Gathering of information for proper hardware sizing, network configurations, and access.
– Verification of configuration for the following elements: Session Server, Web Balancer, Moodle FrontEnd Nodes, MySQL Moodle Database.
– Joint definition with the client of the most suitable migration plan.
– Construction of the migration plan.
Stage 2 – Moodle:
– Construction of the agreed infrastructure in Stage 1.
– Migration as agreed upon in Stage 1.
– Fine-tuning for the integration of Moodle resources on Microsoft Azure.
Results
In less than a week and with the content already generated, educational institutions were able to create the technological environments to conduct online classes, assess students, and generate the necessary exams or tests, allowing for the continuity of educational programs and tracking of students.
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