Case Study

Server Virtualization

ITWin was helping a public utility company transform its legacy data centre comprising many physical servers into a modern, consolidated virtualized environment. This project was executed at Johor Bahru (JB), Malaysia.

To operate safely and smoothly, the public utility company requires seamless integration of multiple business-critical systems, such as the monitoring system, treatment system, distribution system and support system, etc. Unfortunately, different system vendors commenced their systems at various timing. It is not uncommon to see the systems running on various Windows Server versions on multiple brands of physical servers.

The Customer was suffering from common challenges inherited in the physical servers.
Location: Johor Bahru (JB), Malaysia

No hardware available to host old OS in
the event of a breakdown

Difficult to manage backup across different
OS and hardware

Unbalanced allocation of hardware resources

Inefficient disaster recovery measure

We conducted a thorough study for the Customer and presented a report to the management. The report covers their current hardware configuration, performance during peak and off-peak hours, network throughput and disk I/O, etc.

We also formulated the data centre design under server virtualization with the data collected, including system architecture and hypervisors comparison.

The Customer's management eventually chose VMware as their preferred hypervisor for server virtualization based on the report.

The Customer adopts 3-tier architecture consists of DELL EMC PowerEdge R740 Servers, DELL EMC ME4012 Storage with hybrid SAS and SSD hard drives, and DELL PowerSwitch S4112T 10Gbps managed switches functioning as SAN switches.

ITWin technical team helped the Customer conduct P2V migration and had all servers consolidated in the high-availablitiy, centrally managed virtualization environment.

The system users of the Customer are now enjoying the high-performance infrastructure with a piece of mind. With this, it enables the Customer to expand their business from Malaysia.

Contact Details

	+607-266 2969

	+6011-5556 2969

	+607-266 2968

	info@itwin.asia

Our Location

No.18 (PLO 184),
Jalan Angkasa Mas 6,
Kawasan Perindustrian Tebrau II,
81100 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.

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