UGS Software-Infrastructure Virtualization

UGS Software is a software development company. The key challenge for its IT

team was to provide redundancy to certain infrastructure components such as the

Web server, Print server, NIS/Authentication server, and Source Code management

and License management servers.



However, buying hardware to create failover servers for all these services
required a huge investment. The company, therefore, consolidated all the

fail-safe servers in one Dell Power Edge 1950 Server with dual 2.0 GHz CPUs and

4 GB of RAM.

They installed VMWare Server on this Dell server and created five instances

of virtual machines to host the above-mentioned services in each of the virtual

instances. The data for all the servers, including the actual physical servers

and the virtual servers, are drawn from a centralized storage.

The failover is still done manually. For instance, if any of the Web servers

fail, the DNS and IP settings are configured manually in the virtual machine.





And then only the virtual machine is started. The company plans to automate this
process very soon.

	Project Specs Business problem:To create fail safe servers for some of the crucial services running in the organization. IT solution:Virtualized and consolidated all the fail safe servers in one Dell Power Edge server. Impact:The downtime has been reduced to minutes from hours. Implementation partner:In-house
Manoj Mishra, Manager IT