Customer Success: 1800Radiator

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"By virtualizing my servers using VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise, I've got total redundancy, I don't have to allocate a separate machine for every application, and I'm no longer facing $100,000 in new infrastructure costs just to keep up with business demands. We now have the infrastructure to provide the best business applications and services in the entire automotive aftermarket parts industry."Mike Carvalho, CTO, Radiator Express Warehouse (1800Radiator)
K E Y H I G H L I G H T Sindustry: m a n u f a c t u r i n g Radiator Express Warehouse (1800Radiator)Two years ago, Radiator Express Warehouse (1800Radiator), a fast-growing automotive-parts distributor, began franchising. While initial growth was slow and the company had time to add infra-structure and build servers, in the last year, its business skyrocketed. The company has grown to more than 130 franchise locations at a C H A L L E N G E rate of three new openings per week. "Before we knew it," says CTO 1800 Radiator had run out of rack space, was Mike Carvalho, "our computer room was almost at maximum power running out of data center power, had too many capacity, our computer racks were full, our switches were all used, and systems and hardware configurations to manage our air conditioning was on continuously. Rather than spend thou-and lacked a true disaster recovery plan. sands on new power systems, racks, and air conditioning, we chose to S O L U T I O N leverage VMware's product line to allow our company to keep pace with our growth."With VMware Infrastructure 3, 1800Radiator not only enabled a new and improved DR strategy, To maintain its high service levels, 1800Radiator turned to VMware but also dramatically cut power and hardware and partner AccessFlow. Using virtualization technology, the costs and received a $6,000 PG&E rebate check. company was able to take 31 physical servers out of production-the benefits from which extended beyond the combined savings of a V M w a r e a t W o r k nearly $6,000 PG&E rebate check and 25-percent reduction in power VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise, featuring: and cooling costs. "It was worth it to me just for the peace of mind in . ESX Server 3.01 with VMFS being able to support and grow my business. VMware HA and DRS, . VirtualCenter 2.01 for example, provide automatic redundancy and resource manage-. VMotion ment such that we can maintain maximum uptime-simply and . Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) affordably.". High Availability (HA)
D e p l o y m e n t e n v i r o n m e n t Results. ESX Server on Dell 1850 and 1950 servers two . Avoided purchase of $100,000 worth of new hardware dual-core with 12 GB RAM . Eliminated the "one app per server" rule, improving flexibility and . VirtualCenter on Dell 1850 availability. EMC CX-200 SAN with Brocade switches and 1 TB storage; EMC CX-300 SAN with McData . Reduced power and cooling consumption by 25 percent in the data switches and 3 TB of storage center, saving $5,000 per year. Guest operating systems: Microsoft Windows . Primary and disaster recovery site both managed from single Server 2000 Standard and Server 2003 Standard, Red Hat Linux 4 VirtualCenter console. Applications: Exchange 2003 Enterprise, SQL . Reduced downtime due to hardware failure and maintenanceServer 2000 Standard, ACT Enterprise Server, Blackberry Enterprise Server, GoodLink, IIS, . Primary and secondary data centers both run below 50-percent Apache, Aspect Contact Manager, Seagate capacity, allowing instant failover support of entire computing loadReporting, Great Plains . Received a PG&E rebate of close to $6,000 for consolidation project
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