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Server virtualization Case in Intermediate Court

Challenge

As one of the most important law enforcement department, information security of City Intermediate Court is critical.

With the development of information requirement, add new applications for growing and centralized business, there are increasing demands for IT infrastructure.

Data center needs to provide more server resources. However, purchasing new servers and other equipment will increase the investment, and bring more manpower cost and cooling expenses, but server resources were not fully utilized.

Server virtualization can help IT administrator to extend application lifecycle and ensure a reliable application delivery process.

  • How to quickly deploy applications and its service on the existing infrastructure. In the past, deploying a new application needs additional server, but existing servers are not fully utilized.
  • Is the existing IT infrastructure convenient for future expansion and change?
  • Ensure applications high availability and continuity, not rely on human support for continuity.
  • How to release the current management workload.
  • Information construction cost can see the return on investment or not.

Solution

OS-Easy Virtualization technology will integrate existing physical server resources in data center to be virtualized to multiple virtual machines (VM).

Each virtual machined eployed with different applications to improve server resource utilization rate;

It provides a centralized virtualization management platform, remotely maintain server, virtual machines, networks, storage in data center anytime.

Administrators can deploy applications remotely, real-time monitor application running, adjust resources if needed, and migrate virtual machines if there is server failure to ensure high-availability.

Use server clusters, OS-Easy vServer virtualization software and shared storage, to integrate Trials ISIS, case inquiry system, digital CRIC system, Technology Court, document shielding system, document calibration system, HR management system into virtual machines.

Configure server cluster to achieve centralized resource pool, unified storage, unified backup, centralized management.

Resource pool supports elastic expansion, easy maintenance and upgrades, it helps Municipal Court having efficiency, and cost-effective data center.

It provides an expandable hardware and software platform which can satisfy the 10 year’ information technology requirements for the Municipal Court.

Server virtualization system logic chart

Benefit

Improve server hardware utilization

  • Integrate multi-servers to CPU, RAM, hard disk hardware resource pools on-demand provision to different virtual machines to run different applications, which can increase physical server utilization from 15% -35% to 65% -90%in average.

Reduce data center operation costs

  • Integrate vServer to reduce overall operational costs (server hardware cost, space costs, electricity costs, management costs in data center. The more servers and business applications running in data center, the more cost will be saved. Cost comparison analysis in the following as reference:

Ensure business continuity

  • Dynamic migration, high availability, load balancing and other automated services, effectively guarantee application stability and continuity.

Flexible and expandable IT infrastructure

  • Unlimited hardware expansion in datacenter, upgrading does not affect the running application, which is suitable for IT architecture changing and growing. Virtual machines isolated from each other to eliminate the "one server one application" model in the past.

Easy maintenance

  • Rapid deploy applications: accelerate the deployment speed for new servers and applications, greatly reducing server reconstruction and application loading times. Be initiative to increase resource planning ahead so that customer demands can be rapidly responded.
  • Reduce maintenance time: change hardware management from a few days/weeks to 1--3 hours, you can maintain and upgrade hardware faster.
  • Easily build experimental environment: experimental testing applications can be installed in a virtual machine, then formally extended to the real usage, which minimizes the IT risk.
  • Graphical Web interface: web-based interface for configuration and management can be remotely accessed in office or at home, greatly simplify the operation and maintenance of a large number of servers.
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Computer Department of Wuhan University

Challenge

With the development of cloud computing technology

  • The academy leaders want to apply cloud computing teaching to improve the school management level.
  • Due to the special equipment required for software engineering major: IDE environment heterogeneity, operating system heterogeneity, etc., PC management is becoming more complex.

OS-Easy cloud desktop (E-VDI) is able to solve above management problems, and has unique approach to create different teaching scenes.

Solution

Computer software development laboratory has 100 terminals with 18.5”all-in-one PC, used OS-Easy E-VDI, 4 servers as cloud hosts to create two teaching scenes, installing Linux and Windows 7 separately.

When different courses start in class, system will automatically activate the corresponding teaching desktop according to the schedule plan, the terminal can start related virtual desktop automatically.

Software installed in virtual desktop:

  • Scene One: Install Redhat (Linux) systems, GCC compiler, debugger network environment to ensure the normal Internet access;
  • Scene Two: Install Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server2008, VC ++ 6.0, WinRAR, Storm media.

Benefit

Scheduled Desktop Boot up in Sequence

Academy Computer has deployed two teaching scenes for curriculum requirements of different courses and different students.
OS-Easy E-VDI’s schedule plan will automatically start the corresponding teaching desktop according to schedule before class.

Differential update - faster response

OS-Easy E-VDI differential update function makes system and software update faster, which can be completed during the class break. After testing: update 100 desktops, about 1GB files, a key to complete the update in two minutes.
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E-VDI Successful Case for Computer Lab in Middle School

Challenge

In order to improve education information technology, school leaders would like to adopt OS-Easy cloud desktop (E-VDI) in their new build computer lab.
Abandoned the traditional PC to realize computer desktops centralized management, it can save much cost in maintenance, investment and power consumption.

Solution

In the Fourth Middle School, implement 80OS-Easy E-VDI cloud desktops in classroom, use all-in-one (AIO) as terminal devices.

Then deploy win7 teaching desktops, common software and OS-Easy Interactive Teaching System for every desktop in server, use a teaching PC as the console for interactive teaching.

 

Software installed in virtual desktop:

  • Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, Cisco Packet Tracer, WinRAR, PDF reader, video and audio player, input method, OS-Easy Interactive Teaching System.

Benefit

In E-VDI, terminal devices are only used for displaying desktop screen and transmitting keyboard & mouse signals, all data is stored in servers for centralized management and big data management.

  • All the desktops actually run in the servers, therefore, we can maintain all thin AIO terminal by managing server.
  • We only need to update or install software in server side when all the virtual desktops need to install system patch or new software, which improves virtual desktops deployment efficiency.
  • Instead of traditional PCs, the power consumption of thin All-In-One terminals is only 1/15 of the traditional PCs, not only energy saving but also fashionable.

Configuration

Hardware requirements for cloud desktop in the Fourth Middle School:

Result

Simultaneously start E-VDI clients
Screen broadcast in virtual desktop
E-VDI in class
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Server Virtualization Successful Case in Hospital

Project Background

With hospital information technology development, the hospital increased business applications gradually.

HIS, LIS, EMR, office automation, financial management system, asset management, decision-making systems has been widely used, increasingapplicationshadimproved healthcare quality and patient satisfaction.

At the same time the hospital is also facing serious challenges for the wide range of system deployment, and maintenance.

Currentlythe hospitalhas more than 36 internal applicationsinstalled instand-alone servers, which caused server resources is not enough in peak period, but difficult to expand applications in redundant server resources in idle hours.

Challenge

  • Datacenter needs easy expansion, high availability, unified managementfor all hardware and software.
  • Solve the compatible problem of multi applications running on one hardware server to solve business interruption caused by applicationscrash.
  • Migrate the HIS, LIS, EMR, portals, office automation, financial management systems, asset management, decision-making systems etc. 36 systems to IaaS platform which achieveslive migration to ensure no business interruption.
  • Be convenient for rapid applicationdeployment to avoid continuous hardwarepurchasing.
  • Support disaster recovery for the IT infrastructure delivery.
  • Build backup management system to meet the demand of data security in hospital.
  • Reduce costs, improve efficiency, energy savingto meet the hospital’s management requirements.
  • IT infrastructure meets next 2 to 3 years’application deployment requirements inhospital.

Solution

Using the new purchased 4 high-performance X86 physical servers and OS-Easy vServer to install IaaS platformtorunthe hospital’score business systems.

Business systems: HIS, Outpatient Registration, Outpatient Charges, Emergency Registration, Emergency Room Charges, Medical Card Management System, Medicine Library Management System, Hospital Management Fees, Hospital Doctor Management, Medical systems, Detection LIS System, Hospital Doctors, Outpatient Doctors, Formulation Management, Personnel and Payroll, Materials Management, Equipment and Fixed Asset Management, Case Management, Medical Statistics, Decision Support, Office Automation, Insurance Office Management, Rational Drug Use, etc.

OS-Easy vServerpresentsserversas “Resource pool”, makes the application notinstalledin a single physical server, and achieves live migration, high availability in the whole resource pool.

At the same time, realize dynamic resource (VM) allocation and load balance by scheduled tasks.
Itcan makemultiple virtual machines to run one applications (such as: Registration Management, Drug Management, Fee Management, etc.) to solve high utilization from 8:00 to 11:00 am.