JSR Group: Infrastructure Upgrade and Disaster Recovery
The Operational Challenge
An ageing virtualised estate and onsite backup systems were becoming costly to maintain. The onsite backup solution posed a business risk in the event of a disaster recovery situation.
In addition to the old equipment, JSR Group stipulated that any work carried out must have minimal disruption to the workforce and no loss of data.
Ageing Estate
Outdated virtualised infrastructure driving up maintenance costs and reliability concerns.
DR Risk
Onsite backup presented a critical business risk with no off-site recovery capability.
Zero Disruption
Strict requirement for minimal downtime and zero data loss during the migration.
The Contrac Approach
Contrac applied a Consult, Transform, Support methodology to upgrade the infrastructure.
Consult
We ran an analysis on the existing IT core, enabling correct sizing for the new infrastructure.
Transform
We migrated the environment to a hyper-converged private cloud solution using Dell PowerEdge VRTX hardware and Dell blade servers. We repurposed old production hosts for off-site backup and disaster recovery using Veeam software.
Support
We utilised VMWare and Veeam to migrate virtual machines to the new infrastructure without interruption to the business.
Business Impact
Streamlined environment with zero downtime during migration.
Delivered on time and within budget.
performance improvements in virtual machine speed.
Backup times reduced from 4 hours to 45 minutes.
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