The City of Dollard-des-Ormeaux

Establishment of a new virtual environment that is safe, efficient and easy to manage.

Objectives

  • Implementation of a virtualization solution;

  • Reduce energy costs;

  • Reduce the space required for servers.

Technologies

Challenges

The City was looking for a company with advanced expertise to assist in the choice of technologies but who could also be responsible for the deployment, for a turnkey solution.

Results

Establishment of a new virtual environment that is safe, efficient and easy to manage.

Deployed Solutions

The City of Dollard-des-Ormeaux had 40 physical servers to virtualize. Prival was selected because of its experience in the implementation and configuration of a safe network infrastructure as well as its certified team of network’s administrators and experts in implementation. Prival has compressed the 40 servers in 3 new host VMware Dell servers. For the storage, Dell solutions were also used with the series of Power Connect switched and EqualLogic storage. Dell and VMware offer virtualization solutions that reduce the complexity and costs and improve efficiency and control. Dell and VMware alliance ensures significant benefits, regardless of the size or the company or the sector of activity. This alliance is based on a close collaboration to test, certify and improve VMware-technology based on servers and Dell storage solutions.