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"VMware High Availability and EqualLogic's iSCSI SAN ensure that our critical applications experience minimal production downtime in the event of a hardware failure. You can't put a price tag on that capability when you're a customer-centric business." Arell ChapmanAssistant Vice President - Network Administration, United Bank and Trust
United Bank and TrustK E Y H I G H L I G H T S Founded in 1860, United Bank and Trust (United) is an independent industry: Financial service community bank offering personal banking, business banking and wealth management services to customers in southern Michigan.Faced with an aging set of servers within its IT infrastructure, United decided to embrace virtualization as way to move forward. "We didn't look at our servers and try to come up with a reason why we should virtualize them," explains Arell Chapman, assistant vice president of C h a l l e n g e network administration at United. "We looked at our servers and tried Upgrade IT infrastructure and create a cost- to figure out if there was a reason why we shouldn't virtualize them. efficient virtualized IT environment And for the vast majority of our servers, virtualization was absolutely S o l u t i o n the way to go." VMware Infrastructure 3 and EqualLogic United deployed the VMware Infrastructure 3 solution together with virtualized iSCSI SAN combine to simplify IT management and improve operations. an EqualLogic PS Series virtualized iSCSI SAN, which established an enterprise storage platform to achieve the high availability, data V M w a r e a t W o r k protection and performance required for United's new generation, VMware Infrastructure 3 Enterprise, featuring: virtualized IT environment. "Our experience with VMware and EqualLogic has far exceeded our expectations," says Chapman. "The . ESX Server 3 with VMFS combined solution is simple, fast, flexible and reliable.". VirtualCenter 2. VMotion Results . Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) . Save tens of thousands of dollars in hardware costs. "We had 25 . High Availability (HA) servers that we wanted to retire and VMware technology allowed us EqualLogic PS400E storage array, featuring: to virtualize them without having to spend money on replacement . Fully redundant, hot-swappable enterprise boxes," says Chapman.storage architecture . Reduce application-troubleshooting time by a week. "The . 2GB mirrored, battery-backed cache combination of VMware Infrastructure 3 and the EqualLogic iSCSI . 10.5 TB of raw capacity SAN has allowed us to easily create a duplicate IT environment for . Bundled RAID protection, snapshots, clones, testing and development purposes," says Chapman. "Having that replication testing ability saves us seven to 10 days worth of troubleshooting . Automated load balancing and seamless time when we roll out a new application."scalability . Reduce cooling costs in data center by 10 percent. "The air D e p l o y m e n t E n v i r o n m e n t conditioning in our data center was nearly maxed out from all our . ESX Server running on HP DL585s with four duo-core processors physical servers," says Chapman. "By implementing virtualization, our . Guest operating systems: Windows Server 2003, air-conditioning utilization dropped down below the 90 percent SUSE Linux mark and saved us the costs of having to replace an older air-. Applications: Citrix Presentation 4.0 servers, conditioning unit for the time being."and banking software ITI Premier: Navigator, Director, Internet Banking, and Remote Deposit Capture.
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