New India Co-Operative Bank Ltd.

Customer Profile
Industry: Banking

New India Co-Operative Bank Ltd. is one of the leading banks in Co-Operative sector with their presence at various locations.
Bank has their state of the art Head Office located in Mumbai(India). Bank has very well established recognition in business sector as well as well as end users.
Bank is known for their focus towards using the state of the art technology for benefits of customers

Key Highlights
Business Situation
New India Co-Operative Bank Ltd. was in need of additional servers for their upcoming application requirements. Due to global economic slowdown, there were restrictions on expenditure. Hence their was a need of a solution which could enable New India Co-Operative Bank Ltd. to utilize their existing hardware with minimum new procurement, in order to fulfill application requirements.
Benefits
Cut procurement cost by 60 %
Effective utilization of existing hardware
Savings on datacenter power consumption and cooling
Improved manageability of the datacenter using Vmware vCentre
Improved CPU and memory utilization
New servers provisioned in minutes as compared to 4 to 5 weeks in earlier environment


Solution
With help from Wysetek Systems Technologists Pvt. Ltd; New India Co-Operative Bank Ltd. has used their existing IBM X 3650 servers and VMware Virtual Infrastructure to setup required number of servers as Virtual Machines.

Existing IBM X3650 servers at New India Co-Operative Bank Ltd. were upgraded for higher capacity Memory. IBM System Storage DS 3400 has been used as common storage for Virtual Infrastructure. Servers have been configured to boot from SAN. Hence the internal Hard Disks of existing servers were reused at other locations.

Virtual Machines has been created as per the requirement and managed by VMware vCentre. VMware Virtual Machine Templates and clones are being used for rapid provisioning of Virtual Machines.

Vmware at Work
VMware Infrastructure Standard with ESX 3.5
VMware vCentre foundation edition
VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB)
VMware High Availability (HA)


Deployment Environment
ESX 3.5 on two X 3650 Servers with two Quad core Intel Xeon processors running at 2.66 GHz and 16 GB RAM
IBM DS 3400 storage with 2 TB raw capacity
Guest Operating System: - Windows 2003 server (x32 / x64)
Virtualized Production Applications: - Microsoft Active Directory, Customized banking application.