Challenge
Meet green IT and cost reduction objectives while implementing a dynamic, scalable infrastructure that could support software such as Microsoft Exchange 2007.
Solution
VMWare infrastructure gave Future Businesstech the confidence to deploy Microsoft Unified Communications and a customized ERP system on a virtualized platform.
VMWare at Work
- VMWare ESX 3.0.2, migrating to ESX 3.5
- VMotion
- Distributed Resource Scheduler
- Distributed Resource Scheduler
- High Availability
- Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
- VirtualCenter
Deployment Environment
- ESX on two HP ProLiant BL 460c blade servers, each with one quad-core 2.33 GHz Intel Xeon processor and 8 GB RAM
- HP EVA 4400 enterprise virtual array
- Guest operating systems, Microsoft Windows 2003 R2
- Virtualized Production Applications: MS Exchange 2007, MS Office SharePoint Server 2007, SmartFBT ERP system accessing an SQL Server DB, AntiVirus Software.
Results
- Improved performance of MS Exchange Server by 25%
- 99.999% UpTime
- Delivered Single Screen management of virtualized infrastructure
- Achieved 5:1 server consolidation ratio
- Reduced administrator count from 3 to 1
- Delivered 100% reduction in UPS requirements and 75% overall reduction in power and cooling