With extensive experience in designing and building both simple and complex infrastructures, these web hosting professionals specialise in understanding business objectives and delivering bespoke solutions to meet their client’s specific requirements.
The situation
Upgrade of existing VMware management platform to improve extensibility functionality
Scalable solution capable of meeting demands of a growing hosting platform
Design and build of new platform to remove existing networking constraints and reduce provisioning times
Improve network, security and storage performance
Achieve a more agile method of delivering firewalling
Our approach
Design and delivery of multi-site scale out POD architecture design using VMware vSphere as a base platform
NSX micro-segmentation solution, leveraging policy based network firewalling
Dynamic routing protocols, leveraged by NSX to reduce time and ensure a reactive network to changes
VMware vSAN used for high performance and storage based policy management
Customised solution training for customer
Outcomes achieved
Improved security using NSX micro-segmentation solution leveraging policy based network firewalling, simplifying customer on-boarding process
Successful scale out approach to deploying compute network and storage, meeting customer’s growth requirements
Fully extensible platform integrated into existing provisioning portal, capable of workflow automation
Reduction in turnaround time for the provisioning of workloads, storage and networking
Availability and performance improved through distributed storage and network architecture