Case Study

Industry : IT Services, Gujarat

Objective : Set up a public cloud infrastructure with vRealize suite and green field deployment.

Challenges:

Required custom workflows and blueprints for various services including backup, load balancing, and firewalls.

  • Custom vRA blueprint to provide T-Shirt sizing for CPU, Memory and Storage.
  • vRO workflow to auto-resize the OS drive or / filesystem based on selected storage size.
  • Cisco ACI to provide network segments for multi-tenancy.
  • Custom Spectrum Protect Plus blueprint (vRA) to provide Backup As A Service.
  • Custom F5 Load Balancer blueprint (vRA) to provide for Load Balancer As A Service.
  • Custom Checkpoint firewall blueprint (vRA) to provide for Firewall As A Service.
  • Custom vRA form to customize administrator/root password for VMs deployed via vRA blueprint.
  • Show-back configuration using vRealize Business.

Solutions

This was a green field deployment and the customer was in the process of setting up the datacenter operations for a public cloud infrastructure. Post deployment the customer is able to deliver infrastructure as a service to its end customers along with multi-tenancy and various XaaS services. The entire design, deployment, validation and documentation of the infrastructure was handled by Team Smartedge. Team Smartedge was responsible for attending various project governance meetings with the customer and various stakeholders to ensure timely completion of project deliverables. Building consensus on strategy and delivery mechanisms for various services defined as part of the project scope. The entire project lasted for about 4 months.

Benefits:
  • Several infrastructure pre-requisite components including Active Directory services were set up by the team.
  • Various custom blueprints were configured and delivered to the customer, which enabled the customer to offer these capabilities as a service.
  • Integration of various third party components with vRealize Suite.
  • Show-back from a cost perspective for deployed VM instances.
  • Fulfilling all the desired business outcomes and ensuring customer satisfaction for timely delivery.
  • Additional vRealize Operations dashboards were created as per customer needs as part of post deployment feedback.
  • The team delivered a full set of documentation which included design documents, HLDs, LLDs and As-Built documents. The customer’s operations team was enabled with appropriate knowledge transfer sessions for supporting Day 2 operations.