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Essel Propack : Consolidation of MS Exchange 2007 Server in VMware

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PCQ Bureau
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Virtualization is being adopted by many organizations to reduce the costs of

IT infrastructure and for optimum usage of servers. Essel Propack Ltd, part of

the Essel Group, has used it to good effect. The company is the largest

specialty packaging manufacturer for laminated and seamless or extruded plastic

tubes, and medical devices. The primary requirement for the company's Mumbai

team is to have a centralized mailing solution along with a common directory and

address book for efficient messaging solutions. Alongwith that they also need

SharePoint Server, OCS Server, Symantec Mail archiving servers, etc which would

require 22 physical blade servers. But using virtualization the hardware

requirement reduced to only 5 blade servers and along with it the IT

infrastructure management costs reduced as well.

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Some of the issues before deployment were: whether the software vendors will

provide support if a software was deployed in a virtualized environment, how

easy will be the management as compared to physical servers?, will there be any

difference in performance?, etc. In addition, Essel Propack faced the dilemma of

not being able to buy hardware components as they could not bill their

subsidiaries (at foreign locations) directly due to transfer pricing problems.

So they wanted the complete solution to be provided as 'Solution as a Service'.

Project Specs
  • Project Head: Zoeb Adenwala, CIO (Global)
  • Deployment Location: Mumbai
  • Team Size: 4-5 employees
  • Tech Used: VMware Virtualization Platform, Microsoft

    Communication & Collaboration Suite, Symantec Enterprise Vault
  • Expected life:4 years
Implementation Partner
Ontrack Solutions

Their implementation partner deployed the complete solution and then charged

Essel Propack on a per use basis. The company directly benefited from the

solution in the form of reduction in capital expenses, annual expenses reduced

by 30% due to low cost data center hosting, less rack space, reduced power

consumption and reduced cost of manpower for administration.

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