About

The Customer is a European SaaS provider with a park of 300 servers that delivers complete IT systems and solutions for enterprises.

Challenge

Initially, the Customer asked VolgoTechnologies to help out with issues such as configuration of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 and a Citrix XenApp-based desktop environment. As the results were satisfactory, the Customer desired to prolong cooperation with VolgoTechnologies and thus required an 8*5 DevOps service to carry out a number of tasks including creation, migration and modernization of services and infrastructures and consulting for performance improvements.

Solution

The Customer had a cloud environment of 300 servers running Windows and Linux with multiple virtualization platforms such as XenServer, KVM and VMware vSphere. As it was hard to maintain the multitude of hypervisors, VolgoTechnologies built a new cost-effective infrastructure by consolidating the servers with VMware. This allowed the Customer to manage the entire data center from a single control point and facilitate its maintenance significantly.

Since some of the services were configured inadequately, VolgoTechnologies investigated the cases and provided solutions with a detailed documentation.

Staging

Data Ware House

Data Ware House

Desktop Application

Results

The Customer enjoys a cost-effective and competent DevOps service without the need to hire a dedicated team of administrators. Thanks to VolgoTechnologies consulting, the Company is now able to benefit from introducing more efficient and quality services.

Technologies and Tools

Operating systems: Windows Server 2008 R2 and Server 2012 R2, Debian Linux, VMware vSphere 5.5 Database management systems: MS SQL Server 2008 R2 and 2012