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Cisco SystemsData Center and VirtualizationUnified Computing System

Cisco UCS

CAT THIX (Thailand Internet Gateway)

PRE-PROJECT ENVIRONMENTWhat we found to be the

Pre-Project Environment

CAT THIX had over 40 physical servers and continuing growth

demands.

Existing servers are unable to achieve the desired workloads.

Memory and I/O were constrained and used excessive power.

The existing infrastructure was siloed between compute, network, and

storage technologies

CHALLENGEWhat we found to be the

The Challenge

Refresh the server infrastructure for increased availability and agility and improved cost-effective IT services.

Consolidate existing physical rack-mounted servers to virtual server/virtual machines.

Improve space and power utilization so as to postpone or prevent

expensive new data center build-outs.

SOLUTIONWhat we found to be the

“AIT designed and implemented the Cisco Unified Computing System™ (UCS).”

The Solution

Consolidate the 40 rack-mount servers by

converting them to virtual servers though the use of 4

UCS B200-M2 blade servers, providing

significant infrastructure, space, power, and cooling

savings.

WAN Link

UCS Rack Series

VMware Virtual Infrastructure

SAN SW

DB

Nexus

SAN SW

DB

SAN SW

Nexus

VMware Virtual Infrastructure

Blade ChassisAnd

Blade Server

Fabrics Interconnect

UCS Manager

Main Site DR Site

BENEFITS & RETURN ON INVESTMENTS

What we found to be the

Return on Investment

Cost saving through easier maintenance

Fewer infrastructure components to provision, monitor, maintain, power, cool,

and repair.

Enabled Management of the entire solution as a single entity through the Cisco UCS

Manager.

Improves IT productivity and business agility by reducing the time and complexity

to provision new systems. New infrastructure can be provisioned in

minutes instead of days.

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