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Morrison Products, an HVAC equipment manufacturer and distributor, was facing major growing pains.
Morrison Product’s data center had grown with the business and was above maximum power and cooling capacity.
Instead of investing in the facility infrastructure, Morrison decided to embark on a server consolidation project to avoid capital investment and gain other strategic advantages.
Advanced Network Solutions migrated 14 servers to a VMWare redundant, virtualized solution on a 2 high-performance HP servers and fully-loaded HP SAN. Some key reasons why Morrison Products chose this VMWare solution: |
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1. Lower power and cooling requirements from fewer physical servers, avoiding capital outlay for facility power and cooling upgrades
2. Centralized management and control of entire infrastructure including deployment, monitoring, scaling and DR from a single management console
3. Automated load balancing and increased server performance that scales server resources based on server load, including moving a virtual server to another physical server if necessary
4. Simplify future server upgrades by centralizing storage on SAN hardware and allowing dynamic load balancing and computing power matched to server function
5. Lower expenses on extended warranties or replacing existing hardware by retiring 14 servers
6. Local disaster recovery: load balancing and automated server failover
The results speak for themselves. Advanced Network Solutions consolidated from 14 servers to 2 servers and implemented a virtual server solution that lowered electric usage by 40%, lowered cooling usage by over 50%. Morrison Products will have an 11 month ROI on their virtualized server infrastructure investment and will immediately reap the benefits of centralized IT management and enhanced disaster recovery.
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"Morrison Products continues to be successful with the implementation of strategic IT projects with its continuing alliance with Advanced Network Solutions, Inc. With the state of the current economy, Morrison made the decision to implement virtualization utilizing the solution from VMware. We could not have been successful without the experience that ANS brought to the table. They took the time to perform a detailed analysis of our current environment before making their recommendations. We talked to other vendors, but went with ANS because of their ability to convey not only the solution, but also the justification to back it up. The migration went smoothly and our user-base never knew we were implementing this new environment. We can now implement new virtual environments in a fraction of the time and cost. Our systems are fully redundant and the virtualized servers are working great. Thanks ANS."
- Robert Stoddard
Information Technology
Manager
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