Water Utilities
Delivery:
SAN Migration & All Flash Array design:
from 24U/80TB of old Fibre Channel SAN Storage to a modern 2U All Flash Array
An ageing Hitachi HDS array, experiencing periodic disk failures, created an 'at risk' environment for 240 mission critical business applications - running on 50 physical servers and 150 VM's.
The ageing SAN also required 24U of rackspace, and 2.9 KW/h's of power and cooling.
Over 2 months of evenings and weekends, we undertook the complex migration of all 50 Physical Servers and the hypervisor hosts, finally turning-off the HDS array.
To support our project we selected and supplied:
* a new 2U All Flash Array, delivering 70,000 IOPs and consuming 450 Watt/hours of power
* a 2nd Array for remote DR replication
* new fibre channel switching - as well as undertaking the SAN Fabric migration
* and delivered a new Server farm / Hypervisor cluster made up of 17 Servers with 6,5000 GB of RAM and new over 1,000 Ghz of Xeon CPU cores
