Ascent works with a number of the top pharmaceutical companies such as Zydus Cadila, Cipla, Sun Pharmaceuticals, Abbott, GSK, Pfizer, Torrent amongst a host of others and provides seamless platforms to ensure integrity in the supply chain : leading to easier access to affordable medicines. The reach of the company extends across the length and breadth of the country, including retail and institutional pharmacies, and acting as a vendor for the hospital chains.
Ascent had a requirement of a new SAP HANA Infrastructure and VMware infrastructure which would serve fast production data and flexibility to access from anywhere through secure tunnels. The infrastructure is hosted in NETMAGIC Datacenter-Mumbai. They required a robust backup solution, which should have disk-to-disk for their entire SAP HANA Virtualized infrastructure.
What Creative Infotech suggested:
We had implementedPhysical and Virtualize infrastructure using VMWare hypervisor and SLES SAP Edition Linux.,
We had implementedPhysical and Virtualize infrastructure using VMWare hypervisor and SLES SAP Edition Linux.
2xPhysical Appliance for Production under the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Edition with Cluster,
2xPhysical Appliance for Developer & Quality under the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Edition with Cluster,
3xVMWare Node withHPE DL360 Gen10 which are direct connect to HPE MSA 2050 SAN for their workloads.
1xBackup Server with DL380 Gen10 Server which is direct connect to HPE MSA 1050 SAN storage for Backup Infrastructure Data’s.
How our solutions helped the client:
Ascent works with top pharmaceutical brands across the nation and globe. They have to look after a huge inventory as it is a leading supply chain for medicines. Ascent deals with alot of data day in and day out, hence, our solutions ensure that they are worry-free when it comes to data back up. It enhanced the ease of customers. We set up a very simplified setup and configuration of new server deployment. Effortless management of their entire infrastructure so that they can perform their duties easily. A fully secured DC site for customers.
Site Challenges
Site having one of the SAP HANA Developer Vender, so we have to tune-up together as coming multiple configuration and patching as they required for their SAP HANA Develop and customization.
Solution Overview
Hardware:
2 x HPE DL380 Gen10 24SFF(SLES Production Cluster)
2 x HPE DL380 Gen10 24SFF(SLES QA&DEV Cluster)
3 x HPE DL360 Gen10 8SFF(VMware High-Availability Cluster for their Application Layer)
1 x HPE DL380 Gen10 12LFF (Backup Server)
1 x HPE MSA2050 SAN Storage (VMware Virtualization Workload)
1 x HPE MSA1050 SAN Storage (Data Backup workload)
Software:
2 x HPE 5900AF 48Port GT Stack Network Switch Software
VMware vSphere 6 Essential Plus 6P Kit
SLES 12 for SAP Edition Two License for Production Cluster
SLES 12 for SAP Edition Two License for DEV-QA Cluster
SLES 12 for SAP Edition Unlimited VM Three License for Application Layer as per Host
Microsoft Server 2016 STD for Backup Server
Business Benefits
Virtual infrastructure is much more resilient to disasters and problems, as restoring from previously created VM backups is typically fast and efficient. By managing a virtual infrastructure, IT professionals can gain flexibility in systems and applications and have more time to help develop and drive key strategic initiatives for the business.