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Apollo Tyres Ltd : Virtualization & Green IT

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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.

Project Specs
  • Deployment Location: Gurgaon

    ProjectHead:

    Chandrasekhar Velagapudi, Head -IT
  • Team Size: 2 employees
  • Tech Used: HP Blade Center with SAN storage, VMware ESX server,

    VMware Converter, HP SMP, Veritas Backup Tool with MS & Linux OS
  • Expected life: 5 years
Implementation Partner
HP India
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