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Upgrading the Infrastructure
Total Tec provides comprehensive business continuance and disaster recovery solution
When a global services and technology provider needed to deploy a brand new production and disaster recovery site in the United States, it turned to Total Tec Systems. The Australia and UK-based company had just purchased a firm that sets up and administers employee stock purchase plans. They wanted to completely upgrade their new acquisition's infrastructure to a fully redundant OpenVMS environment.
Although the new firm had been using IBM servers and EMC storage, its new parent company had its own proprietary OpenVMS applications and wanted to deploy an HP environment similar to that at its UK data center. "They have a high level of confidence in their AlphaServer clusters and value the bulletproof performance and high availability that OpenVMS delivers," said senior account executive Mark Mastroberte.
The company was also running a stock purchase plan business and data center in the mid-west, which it wanted to merge with its new data center. Once combined, the two operations would increase the company's market share from five to 30 percent. Total Tec's challenge was to migrate the environment and bring it online seamlessly.
Real-time backup for disaster recovery
Working with the customer's UK solutions provider, Total Tec architected a production environment for the new data center using 32-processor HP AlphaServer systems, DL25 blade servers, StorageWorks EVA8000 storage arrays and Cisco Director-class SAN switches. Total Tec engineers used the CWDM high-capacity capabilities of the fiber channel SAN switches, along with a fiber optic network, to create a real-time, constantly backed-up disaster recovery environment in Watertown that could instantly perform as a primary site in event of failure.
As a trusted consultant, Total Tec guided the customer to a solution that delivers high availability and bulletproof failover via a high-speed interconnect to an identical configuration at a DR facility in a nearby location. "The installation and implementation of the entire solution was a collaborative effort, said Aaron Sherck, a Total Tec senior account executive. "We worked closely with their engineers from the UK, testing the systems and applications to ensure they delivered complete high availability."
Delivering optimal performance
Total Tec also took advantage of its close ties with Hewlett Packard by holding architectural workshops to ensure that the client's environment performed optimally. "We spent a lot of time addressing partitioning and clustering issues in order to achieve the best performance and availability," said Aaron. "Our relationship with HP was a big help in delivering a quality project on time."
A key element in optimizing the customers data center is VMware, a virtualized host environment that enables each blade server to run multiple instances of operating systems. Using VMware, hundreds of servers were consolidated onto 88 blades, saving both equipment and maintenance costs.
In order to facilitate a complete solution, Total Tec helped to procure and integrate additional products, such as RADware, that are not part of their normal product line. The Total Tec project team also secured those products with a 3 year/Proactive Day/ One service contract with HP.
Meeting aggressive deadlines
In the end, the launch of the data center went smoothly, as the systems that supported the operation went online with no indication to the end-user that anything had changed. The technical team took full advantage of OpenVMS' no-single-point-of-failure capabilities to deliver redundancy throughout the new environment. When possible, given the aggressive deployment schedule, the team configured and tested equipment at Total Tec's Integration Lab in Edison, N.J. "If a deadline didn't allow us to integrate equipment at our Lab, we would integrate it on-site," said Mark. "We did whatever it took to meet or beat the schedule."
With its new data center and DR site up and running, the customer can market and administer its financial services secure in the knowledge that it has a fully-optimized, highly available, disaster tolerant environment.
When a global services and technology provider needed to deploy a brand new production and disaster recovery site in the United States, it turned to Total Tec Systems. The Australia and UK-based company had just purchased a firm that sets up and administers employee stock purchase plans. They wanted to completely upgrade their new acquisition's infrastructure to a fully redundant OpenVMS environment.
Although the new firm had been using IBM servers and EMC storage, its new parent company had its own proprietary OpenVMS applications and wanted to deploy an HP environment similar to that at its UK data center. "They have a high level of confidence in their AlphaServer clusters and value the bulletproof performance and high availability that OpenVMS delivers," said senior account executive Mark Mastroberte.
The company was also running a stock purchase plan business and data center in the mid-west, which it wanted to merge with its new data center. Once combined, the two operations would increase the company's market share from five to 30 percent. Total Tec's challenge was to migrate the environment and bring it online seamlessly.
Real-time backup for disaster recovery
Working with the customer's UK solutions provider, Total Tec architected a production environment for the new data center using 32-processor HP AlphaServer systems, DL25 blade servers, StorageWorks EVA8000 storage arrays and Cisco Director-class SAN switches. Total Tec engineers used the CWDM high-capacity capabilities of the fiber channel SAN switches, along with a fiber optic network, to create a real-time, constantly backed-up disaster recovery environment in Watertown that could instantly perform as a primary site in event of failure.
As a trusted consultant, Total Tec guided the customer to a solution that delivers high availability and bulletproof failover via a high-speed interconnect to an identical configuration at a DR facility in a nearby location. "The installation and implementation of the entire solution was a collaborative effort, said Aaron Sherck, a Total Tec senior account executive. "We worked closely with their engineers from the UK, testing the systems and applications to ensure they delivered complete high availability."
Delivering optimal performance
Total Tec also took advantage of its close ties with Hewlett Packard by holding architectural workshops to ensure that the client's environment performed optimally. "We spent a lot of time addressing partitioning and clustering issues in order to achieve the best performance and availability," said Aaron. "Our relationship with HP was a big help in delivering a quality project on time."
A key element in optimizing the customers data center is VMware, a virtualized host environment that enables each blade server to run multiple instances of operating systems. Using VMware, hundreds of servers were consolidated onto 88 blades, saving both equipment and maintenance costs.
In order to facilitate a complete solution, Total Tec helped to procure and integrate additional products, such as RADware, that are not part of their normal product line. The Total Tec project team also secured those products with a 3 year/Proactive Day/ One service contract with HP.
Meeting aggressive deadlines
In the end, the launch of the data center went smoothly, as the systems that supported the operation went online with no indication to the end-user that anything had changed. The technical team took full advantage of OpenVMS' no-single-point-of-failure capabilities to deliver redundancy throughout the new environment. When possible, given the aggressive deployment schedule, the team configured and tested equipment at Total Tec's Integration Lab in Edison, N.J. "If a deadline didn't allow us to integrate equipment at our Lab, we would integrate it on-site," said Mark. "We did whatever it took to meet or beat the schedule."
With its new data center and DR site up and running, the customer can market and administer its financial services secure in the knowledge that it has a fully-optimized, highly available, disaster tolerant environment.
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