INDUSTRY Government

I Customer Snapshot
“Moving from a physical infrastructure to a virtual
infrastructure powered by VMware and Intel
technologies has been very beneficial for the city. We
experience more reliability, less administration, and
better performance”

Fernando Suarez Lorenzo

Manager of Information Systems,
HIGHLIGHTS Concello de Santiago

CHALLENGE
 Medieval City Embraces 21st Century
A
Transition mission-critical applications from
aging physical servers to a virtual infrastructure Virtualization
SOLUTION Concello de Santiago is the local government of Santiago de Compostela, a UNESCO world heritage city located

VMware® Intel technology creates a scalable, in the northwest of Spain that is renown for its cultural and historical attractions.
flexible virtual infrastructure that increases
application reliability While Santiago’s architecture might be timeless, its IT infrastructure is not, and it was starting to experience
problems as it aged. “Many of our machines would stop working without any reason,” says Fernando Suarez
VMWARE AND INTEL AT WORK
Lorenzo. “We knew it was a hardware problem, so we chose to migrate to a new, more reliable hardware
VMware® Infrastructure 3 Enterprise, featuring:
platform utilizing the latest generation of Intel Xeon processors.”
• ESX Server 3

°° HP
 DL380 G5 servers with Intel Xeon VMware Infrastructure 3 helped Concello de Santiago to seamlessly transition its old machines by converting
processors attached to HP EVA 3000 SAN
• VirtualCenter 2
physical servers into virtual machines and then migrating them onto VMware ESX hypervisors powered by Intel
• VMotion™ Xeon processors. “We had our new virtual infrastructure up and running in less than one day,” says Lorenzo.
• Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) “We’ve virtualized five different applications that are critical not just to city hall, but also to the public. Now
• High Availability (HA)
that we have these combined VMware and Intel technologies in place, we will continue to leverage them as a
scalable platform for future application deployments.”
DEPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENT
•  uest operating systems: Windows 2003,
G
Ubuntu Linux

• V irtualized Applications: Microsoft

Outlook, Blackberry Enterprise Server,
municipal use management applications,
GeoServer GIS application

RESULTS
Increase uptime of critical applica-
tions. “One of Intel’s hallmarks is
the reliability of their processors,”
says Lorenzo. “Since we’ve used
VMware technology to virtualize
our most important applications, we
want to make sure those VMware
ESX servers are running on reliable
hardware.”
Reduce maintenance-related down-
time. “Thanks to the architecture of
Intel’s processors, we can migrate
running virtual machines from one
physical server to another with
VMware VMotion and Intel VT
FlexMigration while maintaining
continuous service availability and
transaction integrity,” says Lorenzo.
Achieve 10:1 server consolidation
ratio. “We made a point of buying
the most powerful processors
that were available at the time,
which were Intel’s quad core Xeon
processors,” says Lorenzo. “That
has allowed us to fit as many as ten
virtual machines on each VMware
ESX hypervisor and consistently
have reliable performance.”

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