Apollo Tyres Ltd : Virtualization & Green IT

To consolidate IT hardware needs with growing business demands, this project was envisaged with environment concern in view

Monday, June 01, 2009

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A pollo Tyres needed a strong IT infrastructure to support its growing business across the world. They had to add to the datacenter assets to meet the global demand. If the organization had approached the conventional way of adding additional servers to their datacenter, then that would have meant an increase in space and utilities requirements. Also the administration and backup become a serious concern for such a large setup. Adding to that, there was no guarantee that the server resource would be used optimally. Keeping all these points in mind, the organization decided to go for virtualization.

As part of the project implementation, the company replaced their existing standalone servers, PDU, Server Network Switches with single set of blade server infrastructure to cater to their entire existing needs. And for future requirements, a new server blade could be added to the blade infrastructure without any concern of additional space. As applications were now run on virtualized platform, it required replacement of running business supporting infrastructure to the new one. The application migration was planned and achieved in a manner to minimize the business downtown. Post implementation, the company is saving on software licenses, space and utilities consumption. The manpower requirement to manage the datacenter setup has come down by almost a third, and the space requirement for the new infrastructure is reduced to almost a fourth of what was being used by traditional hardware. With approximately 30 to 40% power saving, and low emission of radiations, the project supports the environmental needs as well.

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