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Customer Presentation – City of West Torrens
Presented by: Jess Iannone Snr Network Admin, City of West Torrens
Council info
55,000 Residents 36 km2 250 staff
Information ServicesSecure, robust and reliable network
Early 2007: 225 PCs, 40 laptops, 30+ Servers and growing
2007/8 Budget for Hardware ~ $140k pa
3 week recovery DR plan
MicrosoftCitrix
Infor – PSTechnology One
ESRIAAPT
InternodeSirsiDynix
DatacomHood Sweeney
10 IMUNABS
The motivation to virtualise
• Improve IT business continuity and disaster recovery
• Address “1 or more servers per application”• improve the utilisation of memory and CPU• better than halve IT server costs• optimise IT performance• improve IT manageability• high availability• reduce the number of leases• rapid deployment of future kit and machines
Compelling $$
The Plan
May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar April
A P
Phase 1 Phase 2DR
T DR
Assess
Planning & Procurement
First half of the VC15 VMs
Second half of the VCMore VMs
Develop DR over the VC
Live test of DR
.. 2007 .. 2008 ..
Considerations / Concerns
Bleeding or Leading edge ?
Suitable partner(s)
Design
Addressing “single point of failure”
IT Staff development
Hardware
Software (LG VMware deal)
$$$
Executive support
Timing
The Key Players and Deals
TAS:Assessment and
Consulting
Local Reseller:Hardware and Software deal
VMware:Software and
Training
LGCS:VMware Software
deal
Leasing and DR $$
Network Admin Staff
Manager’s Perspective
Compelling business case
Proven software
Suppliers: TAS & Local Reseller
Staff: Commitment, motivation, development
Timeframe
Affordable (leasing $$ + $DR)
Addressing HA, BC and DR
Arguably no interruption to services
Executing the Plan
May June July Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar April
A P
Phase 1 Phase 2DR
T DR
Assess
Planning & Procurement
First half of the VC15 VMs
Second half of the VCMore VMs
Develop DR over the VC
Live test of DR
.. 2007 .. 2008 ..
Virtualisation at West Torrens
Short timeframe (hours/days) TIME BEFORE RECOVERY Long timeframe (weeks/months)
High
IMPACT
Low
Impact of a disaster
Short timeframe (hours/days) TIME BEFORE RECOVERY Long timeframe (weeks/months)
High
$COST
Low
Cost of recovery
Short timeframe (hours) TIME BEFORE RECOVERY Long timeframe (weeks)
IMPACT TO THE BUSINESSCOST OF COUNTER MEASURES
High
IMPACT
Low
April 2007
High
$COST
Low
Our DR before virtualisation
Short timeframe (hours) TIME BEFORE RECOVERY Long timeframe (weeks)
IMPACT TO THE BUSINESSCOST OF COUNTER MEASURES
High
IMPACT
Low
April 2007
High
$COST
Low
April 2008
Virtualisation made timely DR affordable and do-able
DR after virtualisation
Benefits of Virtualisation?
•Server consolidation
•Physical infrastructure cost reduction
•Reduced Air conditioning and electricity costs
•Improved operational flexibility
•Increased Application availability
•Reduced DR costs
Where to from here?
•Virtual Desktop Infrastructure
•Site Recovery Manager
Virtualisation at West Torrens
Contact Details:
Jess Iannone 8416 6285 [email protected]
Any questions ?
