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Virtualisation Overcomes Legacy Hardware Deficiencies

Customer

Central Government department - Identity withheld as requested

Region

London, South East

Challenges

• Aging and unreliable hardware that was difficult to source replacement parts

• Legacy Operating Systems and applications that don't support modern technologies like PXE and Volume Shadow Copy services

• Legacy network services such as Data Link Control

• Demanding security requirements

• Continuity of existing support processes

• Continuity of existing backup facilities

Solution

Embrionic designed and delivered a solution based on Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2 to over come the challenges that incorporated:

• Two physical machines running Windows Server 2003 R2 and Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 R2

• Utilising Virtual Server Migration Toolkit to perform physical to virtual migrations of the existing servers

• Writing step by step operational documentation to aid support engineers

• Designed a host to guest backup solution

• Migrate legacy network services to Internet Protocol

Benefits

Fully operational platform running as virtual machines on supported hardware:

• Consolidated server physical hardware

• New supported hardware platform

• Perceived performance increase

• Improved backup performance

• Simplified recovery processes