Hosting Provider - Migration Virtual Infrastructure to a New Datacenter

Client

The customer is a medium-sized hosting provider with hundreds of enterprise users in the Middle East and South Africa looking to move the entire infrastructure to another data center and virtualization platform to have high availability.

Challenges

• Outdated virtualization stack without management capabilities.
• More than 350 VMs were running various applications.
• Tens of applications from traditional to cloud apps.
• Legacy network architecture.
• Legacy identity management.
• Manual backup scripts.
• No monitoring solution.

Solution

• Modernized the virtualization stack based on VMWare and Kubernetes.
• Optimized the solution by leveraging containers and VMs.
• Redesigned the entire network architecture to scale and security in mind.
• Industry-standard backup solutions were implemented using Asigra.
• Monitoring was configured using Zabbix.

Value

• 20% reduction of the hardware inventory.
• Approximately 25% of reduction of operational costs.
• Deployment time was cut in half.
• Backup and DR architecture allowed the client to offer better SLA for the customers.