Perimeter Church Simplifies IT Administration with VMware

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"Before we had VMware technology, we never even imagined having a test environment, because of our limited IT resources. VMware software has evened the playing field so that even a nonprofit organization like us can easily afford to create a test environment." John DolanIT Specialist, Perimeter Church
K E Y H I G H L I G H T Si n d u s t r y : N o n - P r o f i t Perimeter ChurchPerimeter Church (Perimeter) has been serving the greater Atlanta, Georgia, area for nearly 30 years through its various churches and missions, which are spread throughout the Atlanta area. Perimeter has a weekly attendance of 7,000 persons.=Perimeter heavily utilizes its intranet for internal communications and to access key resources needed to serve its congregation. As the Perimeter congregation C H A L L E N G E expanded, Perimeter's IT staff needed to find a way to meet the growing IT needs Efficiently handle growing IT administration of the church with limited staff. "We saw the tremendous administrative benefits responsibilities with a limited staff that VMware Infrastructure 3 could provide, and we were sold," says John Dolan, IT S O L U T I O N specialist at Perimeter Church.VMware infrastructure simplifies IT From provisioning new servers to performing server maintenance, the Perimeter IT administration and frees up IT staff to perform team has been able to perform its administrative functions much more effectively other mission-critical tasks. with VMware technology. "The time we save on IT administration can be dedicated towards enhancing the Perimeter intranet and developing new functionality to V M w a r e a t W o r k better connect our staff and volunteers with our congregation," says Dolan. "That VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise, featuring: helps us better serve both our members and our community.". ESX Server 3 with VMFS. VirtualCenter 2. VMotion Results . Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) . Reduced server repair time by 80 percent. "Previously, the act of rebuilding a . High Availability (HA) Citrix would take nearly five hours," says Dolan. "Now, we can utilize a base image to rebuild a Citrix server in less than an hour."D e p l o y m e n t e n v i r o n m e n t . Shortened server provisioning time. "It used to take as long as two weeks . IBM X3650 servers, dual core, with 16 GB RAM, to provision a brand new server," says Dolan. "With VMware software, we can attached to IBM DS4300 SAN. accomplish the same task in 30 minutes.". Guest operating systems: Windows Server 2003 . Avoided nearly $80,000 of hardware costs. "VMware software allows us to . Applications: Citrix servers, web servers, Sharepoint, SQL Server 2005, Domain have 23 virtual servers machines running on three boxes," says Dolan. "That's saved Controllers, File Servers, Print Server, test us from having to buy as many as 20 additional servers-a real savings for our environment for MS Great Plains and Provision organization."Networks.
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