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Case Study: Server Virtualization |
The ChallengeA Michigan-based mortgage company needed to rapidly expand to support increasing business requirements. Because of the restrictions placed by the lending market at the time, the company was unable to sustain the purchase of a large amount of capital equipment. A solution was needed that provided the company with the infrastructure it needed and the flexibility to scale and accommodate their growing business needs.
The SolutionLinearLogic provided a solution based on Citrix XenServer. An evaluation was performed that looked into their existing infrastructure to see what could be used moving forward. The company had several high-end servers that had not yet reached the end of their lifecycle, so they were provisioned for high-load applications such as Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server. With the limited budget available, several servers were able to be procured along with some basic shared storage. This allowed the installation of Citrix XenServer, which permitted the rest of the environment, including services such as SharePoint, to be implemented in a virtualized environment.
The BenefitWith a virtualized environment available, the company was able to expand their infrastructure in a controlled manner that permitted them the flexibility they needed in order to meet their business demands. With Citrix XenServer’s memory management capabilities, multiple VMs were able to be provisioned that could provide all of the services required to their end-users while meeting their budget constraints.
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