Server & Storage Design & Consolidation
Does Your Company Suffer From:
Too Many Servers
Maintenance Costs
Complex Infrastructure
Data Center Constraints
essextec Expertise
Server consolidation on Blades provides an IT infrastructure that, on many levels, increases the efficiency and reduces cost of your IT environment. Many data centers have reached their limits as to the amount of space, power, and HVAC that can be provided. Physically, Blades take up less data center space and require less power than the equivalent number of typical 1U standalone servers.
Additionally, IBM BladeCenters have advanced power management applications, such as Active Energy Manager, that can provide real-time and historical energy reporting, allowing for greatly improved management and forecasting of the energy needs in your data center.
essextec IBM Certified Systems Architects can implement this solution which offers additional efficiencies from a systems management perspective and provides built in advanced management capabilities for remote management of all the Blades and components in the chassis.
IBM BladeCenters present an excellent environment for server utilization technologies such as VMware, Xen, and PowerVM. Blades support the memory, processor, and I/O requirements of virtualization technologies to enable high server consolidation rates in fewer numbers of Blades.
Case Study
Client: A pharmaceutical company that develops, manufactures and markets generic drugs and innovative proprietary pharmaceuticals for specialty markets.
Challenge / Problem / Requirements: The client had a multitude of older, underutilized Intel servers with limited data center space, power, and cooling.
Test / Benchmark: essextec consultants gathered server performance and utilization metrics during peak operational times and analyzed the data to devise the best possible and affordable solution for the client.
Solution / Implementation: IBM BladeCenters were chosen as the reference platform enabling reduced space requirements in the existing datacenters. Blades were configured by essextec solution architects for boot-from-SAN with IBM DS4000. SAN replication provided Disaster Recovery protection between remote locations.
Benefits: The Blades solution provided by essextec -
- Reduced floor space, power, and cooling needs
- Greatly simplified deployment of new servers
- Dramatically reduced the amount of network and fiber connections needed to maintain this environment
- Simplified server management
- Provided improved Disaster Recovery capabilities
The Solution
essextec can plan and implement a server consolidation solution with IBM Blades that will provide for higher availability and resiliency of your IT infrastructure, while reducing physical and operational costs.
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