2M-IT Data Center - Nutanix presentation
Download as PPTX, PDF1 like340 views
This document summarizes 2M-IT Oy, a company that provides IT services to healthcare organizations across Finland. It discusses 2M-IT's formation through a merger in 2018, its customer-centric approach, and an ongoing project to implement a Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) platform across its six data centers. The HCI project goals were to create a highly virtualized, scalable solution with unified support. Experiences over 18 months showed rapid and non-disruptive expansion capability, increased efficiency through reduced power/cooling and support needs, and aligned growth with 2M-IT's strategic plans.
2M-IT Data Center - Nutanix presentation
- 1. Speaker: Juha Rouhiainen 2M-IT Oy Team Leader, Data Center Team 15.6.2018 2M-IT
- 2. 15.6.2018 ABOUT US SINCE 1.3.2018 2
- 3. 2M-IT Oy´s starting point Maarianhamina Vaasa Joensuu Kuopio Oulu Kajaani Rovaniemi Kemi Helsinki Pori Turku Kokkola KYM PK PP L LP PS KP KAI V HUS S VS Tampere P Lappeenranta Savonlinna Mikkeli Seinäjoki EK ES IS EP KS PH KH Lahti Kotka Jyväskylä KL Espoo 11 12 Regions Health care districts Turnover Personnel Hometown Helsinki 80 million € 430
- 4. Medbit Oy Government owned, nonprofit company Owned by 29 municipalities or their federations Turnover 2017 57 M€, personnel 260 The six largest owners: The Hospital District of Southwest Finland The Hospital District of Satakunta The Hospital District of Vaasa City of Pori City of Rauma City of Salo Medi-IT Oy Government owned, nonprofit company Owned by 8 hospital districts and City of Espoo Turnover 2017 29 M€, personnel 170 Owners: Carea Eksote The Hospital District of Central Finland PHHYKY The Hospital District of Eastern Savonia The Hospital District of Southern Savonia The Hospital District of Tavastia The Hospital District of Southern Ostrobothnia City of Espoo 15.6.2018
- 7. HCI project background (2016 to date) In the beginning: Dispersed technology architectures (EMC, Dell, NetApp and Cisco...) Isolated resources for managing IT infrastructure 3rd party resources needed Capacity was running out on some systems Vendor maintenance was running out on some systems Nutanix pilot project started October 2016 Statistics: about 1700 virtual machines, 6 datacenters, more than 1PB of data, about 500 applications. 715.6.2018
- 8. HCI project goals New solution that would be highly virtualised and enable seamless expansion of resources (scale-out) One support organisation able to support all geographic areas Support 2M-IT growth plan economically (pay as you grow) and with low risks (technology maturity) Support different applications, both clinical data and traditional ones, with single technology platfrom 815.6.2018
- 9. Why Nutanix? Decision was made by IT professional team after careful investigation Most mature technology Open architecture (no vendor locks) Support for mission critical, active-active IT architecture (data protection) Very quick as-is migration Empowering in-house support team 915.6.2018
- 10. Experiences so far (18 months of production) Initial purchase early 2017, planned for 1/3 of total capacity: Almost 2/3 of total capacity was fitted (2x performance) None of the expansions or upgrades required downtime (almost 100% uptime) A very quick migration (just 3 weeks), during July-August 2017. Expansion late 2017: All the 1700 virtual machines now run over Nutanix Platform, about 60% with Metro clustering enabled for them. Next step is use to use Acropolis Block Services for un-virtualised resources (merely Oracle databases). Zero downtime caused by IT operations 1015.6.2018
- 11. Return of Investment This platform replaced separate IT environment worth: 4 whole racks with 6 rack units per datacenter Reduced power and cooling consumption with -80% Reduced external consulting days There is no extra, unused capacity in the system: Utilisation constantly between 70% to 80% Growth plan 100% aligned to 2M-IT ICT perspective: All the new datacenter sites can be operated similarly by one team 1115.6.2018