a medieval city turns to virtualization

8/8/2019 A Medieval City Turns to Virtualization

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 A MedievAl City eMbrACes 21st Century

virtuAlizAtion

Concello de Santiago is the local govenment o Santiago de Compostela, a UNESCO wold heitage city located

in the nothwest o Spain that is enown o its cultual and histoical attactions.

While Santiago’s achitectue might be timeless, its IT inastuctue is not, and it was stating to expeience

poblems as it aged. “Many o ou machines would stop woking without any eason,” says Fenando Suae

Loenzo. “We knew it was a hadwae poblem, so we chose to migate to a new, moe eliable hadwae

platom utilizing the latest geneation o Intel Xeon pocessos.”

VMwae Inastuctue 3 helped Concello de Santiago to seamlessly tansition its old machines by conveting

physical seves into vitual machines and then migating them onto VMwae ESX hypevisos poweed by Inte

Xeon pocessos. “We had ou new vitual inastuctue up and unning in less than one day,” says Loenzo.

“We’ve vitualized ve dieent applications that ae citical not just to city hall, but also to the public. Now

that we have these combined VMwae and Intel technologies in place, we will continue to leveage them as a

scalable platom o utue application deployments.”

I Customer Snapshot“Moving rom a physical inrastructure to a virtua

inrastructure powered by VMware and Inte

 technologies has been very benefcial or the city. We

experience more reliability, less administration, and

better perormance”

Fernando Suarez Lorenzo

Manager of Information Systems,Concello de Santiago

industry GOVErNMENT

HIGHLIGHTS

CHALLENGE

Tansition mission-citical applications om

aging physical seves to a vitual inastuctue

SOLUTION

VMwae® Intel technology ceates a scalable,

fexible vitual inastuctue that inceases

application eliability

VMWARE AND INTEL AT WORK

VMwae® Inastuctue 3 Entepise, eatuing:

ESX Seve 3•

 ° HP DL380 G5 seves with Intel Xeonpocessos attached to HP EVA 3000 SAN

VitualCente 2•

VMotion•™

Distibuted resouce Schedule (DrS)•

High Availability (HA)•

DEPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENT

 Guest opeating systems: Windows 2003,•

Ubuntu Linux

 Vitualized Applications: Micosot•

Outlook, Blackbey Entepise Seve,

municipal use management applications,

GeoSeve GIS application

RESULTS 

Incease uptime o citical applica-

tions. “One o Intel’s hallmaks is

the eliability o thei pocessos,”

says Loenzo. “Since we’ve used

VMwae technology to vitualize

ou most impotant applications, we

want to make sue those VMwae

ESX seves ae unning on eliable

hadwae.”

reduce maintenance-elated down-

time. “Thanks to the achitectue o

Intel’s pocessos, we can migate

unning vitual machines om one

physical seve to anothe with

VMwae VMotion and Intel VT

FlexMigation while maintaining

continuous sevice availability and

tansaction integity,” says Loenzo.

Achieve 10:1 seve consolidation

atio. “We made a point o buying

the most poweul pocesso

that wee available at the time

which wee Intel’s quad coe Xeon

pocessos,” says Loenzo. “Tha

has allowed us to t as many as ten

vitual machines on each VMwae

ESX hypeviso and consistentl

have eliable peomance.”

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