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"Using VMware technology to consolidate our servers and shrink our data center footprint has helped us significantly reduce our energy consumption. This practice is the primary driver behind a six-figure rebate check we will be receiving from Southern California Edison this year."
Jake SeitzEnterprise Architect, The First American Corporation
K E Y H I G H L I G H T Sindustry: finance The First American CorporationThe First American Corporation is America's largest provider of business information. The company operates within five primary business segments, including: Title Insurance and Services, Specialty Insurance, Mortgage Information, Property Information and First Advantage.C h a l l e n g e Having completed numerous acquisitions and operating within diverse lines Consolidate servers located in disparate facilities of business, First American found itself with multiple data centers in a variety of and increase overall IT efficiency throughout the locations throughout the country. In consolidating these facilities, First American organization turned to VMware Infrastructure 3 technology to support that effort. S o l u t i o n "Once the server consolidation project was underway, we experienced the benefits VMware technology optimizes availability and of VMware Infrastructure 3 firsthand," says Jake Seitz, an enterprise architect at First simplifies management of IT infrastructure- American. "It has greatly simplified IT management while significantly reducing desktop to data center. the footprint of our data center. We'll be taking a similar approach to our desktop V M w a r e a t W o r k infrastructure by using VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure to replace our VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise, featuring: existing desktops with thin clients. Every efficiency we capitalize on by using . ESX 3 with VMFS VMware technology helps make us a greener, more efficient organization." . VMotion. Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) Results . High Availability (HA) . Virtualize 20 percent of existing data center. "In our California data center, we VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) have 3,500 individual operating systems running on 2,800 physical hosts," says D e p l o y m e n t E n v i r o n m e n t Seitz. "That translates into 700 physical machines that we didn't have to purchase, refresh and maintain.". ESX 3 running on HP Blade BL680s attached to an EMC DMX SAN . Virtualize 80 percent of new servers. "We have a massive hardware refresh . Guest operating systems: Windows Server 2000- occurring this year," says Seitz. "For 80 percent of the machines that we have 2008, UNIX, Linux identified for the refresh, we will be creating virtual machines rather than . Virtualized pre-production applications: BEA purchasing 1:1 hardware replacement."WebLogic, IIS. Virtualized production applications: Exchange, . Reduce desktop power consumption by 93 percent. "As we roll out VMware SQL, Sharepoint, IIS, Apache Tomcat, legacy Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, we're able to replace our existing desktops, which homegrown applications consume 118 watts of power per hour, with thin clients that only consume nine watts of power," says Seitz.. Standardize on VMware technology. "We have a virtualization-first policy within our organization and we have standardized on VMware technology for that virtual infrastructure," says Seitz. "All virtual machines from this point forward will be built on the VMware platform."
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