Mahindra & Mahindra : Hosted Setup on VMware Platform

The company used virtualization to consolidate 13 physical servers into 1

Monday, June 01, 2009

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Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd is a part of Mahindra Group, which deals in frame equipment, automotive business and international operations. Lack of space and the need to reduce recurring cost were the prime factors for this project. Previously, the company had a hosted model that lacked many features that they wanted. For example, the inability to host Internet servers due to space constraints. SLAs for resolution were not as per their business requirements since the servers were hosted at a third party data center, and cost was another factor which persuaded them to go for this project. Apart from this, the deployment time required for a new application was very high because of factors such as procurement of new space, delivery of hardware, installation and commissioning of the hardware, subsequent application, configuration, etc. Plus they were also looking to consolidate the SAP 4.6B servers along with archived data.

The older system was not able to handle the continuous growth of the organization. During the deployment, they faced trouble in moving applications from physical servers to virtual servers. Apart from this, they were not able to back up data. However, with the VMWare utility, the problem was taken care of. Another challenge was to find the right skill to use these tools and resolve the issues quickly.

Finally, they implemented a hosted environment on a virtualized platform and created a service oriented infrastructure for deployment of business applications with hosting as a service as compared to traditional deployments of one server per application. In future, they look forward to deploy DR scenario for the High Availability setup that they have created.

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