Leon IT Setup Case Study
- 1. CUSTOMER SNAPSHOT “VMware has enabled us to reduce our environmental footprint by cutting power and cooling consumption as well as allowing us to dramatically improve our backup window, consequently reducing risk and the possibility of human error.” Santosh Tambe, Head IT Infrastructure Leon Computers Pvt Ltd KEY HIGHLIGHTS Leon Computers I N D U S T RY: T E C H N O LO G Y Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Pune, India, Leon Computers Pvt. Ltd offers infrastructure management, managed services, consultancy, systems integration and licensing services. The company expects to achieve certification to the ISO/IEC 20000 Information Technology Service Management Standard in Q2 2009. A single datacenter supports Leon Computers’ 140 staff. CHALLENGE Leon Computers found its datacenter’s power and cooling systems could not continue to meet the demands of eight physical servers, Reduce risks caused by extensive backups and cut environmental footprint while improving each with local storage. In addition, backup of applications was taking infrastructure manageability and flexibility. more than two days at a time, presenting an unacceptable risk to business continuity. In early 2008, the company decided to virtualize SOLUTION its server environment using VMware products. It is now running nine virtual machines on a single production server, complemented VMware virtualization enhances backup by one other physical server delivering high availability, as well as capabilities and timeliness while a reduced physical infrastructure generates less heat and a storage area network. The new infrastructure has enabled Leon fewer CO2 emissions. VMware also enables Computers to cut backup windows to two to four hours and reduce centralized management and the allocation of the load on its power and cooling systems by almost one-third. The resources to where they are most needed. infrastructure has also simplified management of applications and databases and reduced the company’s maintenance task. V M WA R E AT W O R K Leon Computers has also deployed Check Point VPN-1 VE to provide • VMware Infrastructure 3, featuring: ESX 3.5, High the same level of protection to applications running in its virtualized Availability, VMotion, DRS, Consolidated Backup environment as those running in a physical environment. The solution also ensures virtualized applications are segregated from each other • VMware vCenter Server as well as external threats, and helps secure remote access to the • VMware vCenter Converter Leon Computers infrastructure. DEPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENT Leon Computers is now preparing to test desktop virtualization based on VMware View across 30 users by the end of the second quarter of • ESX on two HP ProLiant DL360 servers each with dual quad-core Intel Xeon 2.00GHz processors 2009. The organization also plans to implement VMware vCenter Lab and 16GB RAM Manager and a Microsoft Dynamics NAV enterprise resource planning • EMC CLARiiON CX-4 networked storage system system in its virtualized environment by the end of 2009. • Guest operating systems: Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition, Check Point SecurePlatform Results • Virtualized production applications: Microsoft • Achieved an 8:1 server consolidation ratio Exchange Server 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Project • Reduced datacenter power and cooling consumption by about 30% 2007, Microsoft SCCM and SCOM accessing a • Improved average CPU utilization from 25% to 70% Microsoft SQL Server database, Microsoft ISA Server 2006, Microsoft Forefront, Check Point • Cut backup windows from more than two days to two to four hours VPN-1 VE Virtual Edition, EMC Avamar Virtual Edition, EMC Networker • Achieved 99.999% uptime VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Ave., Palo Alto CA, 94304 USA Tel 877-486-9273 Fax 650-427-5001 Copyright © 2008 VMware, Inc. 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