Sumul or Surat Milk Union Limited, which is now renamed as The Surat District Co-operative Milk Producers' Union Ltd, is one among the 17 district unions which acts as manufacturing units of dairy products for Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation Limited, the marketers of AMUL brand of products.
Surat District has been a Pioneer in India in channelling trade in Cotton and Milk through co-operatives. Before SUMUL stepped in, traditional Private Milk Traders were dominant in the area.
All Existing HPEUX Hardware, EVA and x86 Server Including Blades needed refresh with new HPE Server and SAN Storage Appliance. Also, migrate all existing applications, server with Microsoft Server 2019 under the VMWare Hypervisor Infrastructure Solution.
The Infrastructure is hosted in On-Premises Data Center- SURAT
The client also required a robust backup solution, which should have Disk to Disk & D2D2T for their entire virtualized infrastructure and physical infrastructure. Move HPUX to Oracle Linux OS – Oracle Database and application Servers.
What Creative Infotech suggested:
We had implementedPhysical and Virtualize infrastructure using VMWare hypervisor and Oracle Linux Enterprise Edition Platform.
We had implemented backup infrastructure solution using VEEAM Backup Software, and Target Storage are HPE StoreOnce Backup Appliance which is gives best performance with Backed up data with deduplication and compression using HPE StoreOnce based Platform Engine.
2xPhysical Appliance for Oracle Linux Edition with OS Cluster,
3xVMWare Node withHPE DL380 Gen10 which are connect to HPE MSA 2052 SANStorage via SAN Switch for their workloads.
1 x Backup Server with VEEAM Backup Software Solutions: (A) 1 x HPE StoreOnce 3620 Backup Appliance for Backup data direct to Disk. (B) 1 x HPE LTO8 Tape Autoloader for Backup Archival for Long time.
2 x HPE SN300b SAN Switch for back-bond Fiber connectivity for data’s
2 x CISCO 3850 12P 10G Switch for Server and storage Backend Network Connectivity.
How our solutions helped the client:
It enhanced the ease of customers. The x86 Server was very old and was causing bigger problems. With the change to Microsoft Server 2019, their operations became quicker, and as a result productivity increased. SUMUL is a leading dairy, hence, it deals in a great amount of data. It required backup solutions that are robust and strong. Our backup solutions helped the dairy to store data efficiently. We set up a very simplified setup and configuration of new server deployment. Effortless management of their entire infrastructure. A fully secured DC site for
Site Challenges:
Site having all physical infrastructure with multiple Integrity and x86 servers and Storages, which can difficult to manage due to multiple management console. While failure of any single server it will take much time to resume their production activities.
Data Backup is very difficult and long backup window.
Solution Overview
Hardware:
2 x HPE DL380 Gen10 8SFF(Oracle Linux Cluster)
3 x HPE DL380 Gen10 8SFF(VMware High-Availability Cluster for their Application Layer)
1 x HPE DL380 Gen10 8SFF (Backup Server)
1 x HPE MSA2052 Dual Controller SAN Storage (VMware Virtualization Workload& Oracle Database)
1 x HPE StoreOnce 3620 Backup Appliance (Data Backup workload)
1 x HPE MSL 1/8 G2 LTO-8-1drive FC Tape Autoloader
2 x Cisco Catalyst 3850 12 Port 10G Fiber Switch IP Base
2 x HPE SN3000B 16Gb 24-port /12-port Active
Software:
1 x VMware vSphere 6 Essential Plus 6P Kit
2 x OL- Oracle Enterprise Linux 5 Year Support and Subscriptions
70 x Microsoft Server 2019 Std Core License
200 x Microsoft DvcCAL License
1 x VEEAM Backup and Replication enterprise
Business Benefits
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. Respond to market changes with dynamic resource management, faster server provisioning and improved desktop and application deployment.