Consolidation for Efficiency

By Kazu Oda

The computer has changed the way we live in every way. From the way we get our groceries to the way we transport ourselves place to place.

Computers provide us with our entertainment as well as our livelihood and lifestyle. Whether we are taking in an opera or purchasing a drink at the local pub, we can be sure that information has passed through a computer at some point in the transaction.

The administration of this municipality is very much dependant on Information Technology (IT). However, their servers were not operating very efficiently. They were employing 16 distributed servers and using outdated desktop tower servers. There were over 100 desktops in use. The municipality decided upon

consolidating and virtualizing the server's infrastructure modernizing the city's network the use of a virtual desktop infrastructure for the city employees consolidating the printer environment

Strongly recommended were the use of redundant server infrastructure and the Sun UltraThin Clients SunRay, creating the virtual desktop infrastructure. Comparisons were made between the old infrastructure and the new infrastructure by the use of Windows performance monitor. The employment of these modernization techniques resulted in an overall Bad Soden am Taunus municipality IT energy consumption reduction of 61%.

Memory options: Memory type- DDR-2 675 MHz (PC3200) registered DIMMs with ECC (128 bit plus ECC databus) Memory Capacity- 16 DDR2 DIMM slots (8 per processor)64GB maximum with 2 CPUS and 4GB DIMMs, standard 32GB

Hard Disk: Hard Disk Supported- 48 hot swappable, 3.5" SATA II Disk RAID configurations- SW RAID enabled by RAID-Z in Solaris ZFS for RAID 0, 1, 0+1, 5, and RAID z2 for RAID 6

This system provides valuable disaster recovery by backing up your desktops with a much better fault tolerance than the "in-house" traditional desktop and server system.

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