Brocade VCS materials hyperlink distant knowledge facilities to allow a zero-downtime atmosphere, permitting most software availability to higher serve clients
Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel materials inside every knowledge middle present a resilient, high-performance basis for a broad array of EMC storage
SKILLED GROUP (ASX: SKE), Australias largest supplier of workforce options, has created an always-on IT infrastructure by deploying an progressive community design utilizing Brocade Ethernet and Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) materials. The Brocade materials allow a zero-downtime atmosphere to assist Skilled Groups mission-critical functions, permitting the corporate to higher serve its clients.
Skilled Group makes use of Ethernet materials based mostly on Brocade VDX switches and VCS Fabric expertise to attach its main knowledge middle to a secondary website 30 kilometers away. The Brocade VDX switches create a virtualized infrastructure that gives failover and IP replication providers to the Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel SANs inside every location. This strategy helps guarantee a extremely resilient basis between servers and a broad array of EMC high-end and midrange storage programs.
Skilled Group supplies each onshore and offshore complete workforce administration, versatile labor options, and project-based workforce options together with shut downs, installations, and relocations. The firm department community consists of greater than 80 native and regional places of work throughout Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Malta, and the United Arab Emirates. In all, it employs roughly 50,000 full- and part-time workers in a broad vary of fields.
“The success of our business relies on automation, standardization, and centralization of core processes, which requires an agile, zero-downtime IT environment to enable all applications to be always available,” mentioned Pavel Rogik, senior technical analyst at Skilled Group. “To achieve this, we have deployed Brocade Ethernet and SAN fabrics to link our data centers so that they behave as a single entity.”
The BROCADE VDX 6740 SWITCHES deployed by Skilled Group leverage BROCADE VCS FABRIC TECHNOLOGY and its distinctive Logical Chassis functionality, enabling the corporate to handle a number of units spanning each websites as one logical change by way of a single IP handle.
Skilled Groups IT workers makes use of the Metro VCS function of the Brocade VDX 6740 to stretch a VCS material throughout each websites for larger resiliency and software availability. The function permits interconnects between totally different places by forming clusters over lengthy distances (as much as 30 kilometers) so as to present catastrophe safety/restoration and cargo balancing.
Skilled Group was in a position to deploy the Brocade VDX switches throughout each knowledge facilities in slightly below 4 hours, as an alternative of the 2 weeks estimated if it had used aggressive options.
Inside every knowledge middle, the Brocade VDX switches additionally allow active-active connections between Skilled Groups SANs, which make the most of Brocade Gen 5 Fibre Channel expertise. Multiple Brocade 6510 switches present connectivity between Oracle SPARC servers and a variety of EMC storage, together with EMC VMAX, EMC VNX, EMC VPLEX, EMC Isilon, and EMC XtremIOâ„¢ programs. Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) is native to every knowledge middle and used as a backup path for the EMC VPLEX programs.
In addition, EMC PowerPath administration software program displays the well being and standing of the storage materials and decides when to maneuver knowledge between the Fibre Channel SANs inside every knowledge middle, and even between knowledge facilities, to keep up software availability.
“Skilled Group is a textbook example of the synergies that can be realized between Brocade fabrics and EMC storage for maintaining maximum application performance and availability,” mentioned Gary Denman, senior director for Australia/New Zealand, at Brocade. “These innovative deployments demonstrate the power and value of fabrics in delivering automation and simplicity to support highly virtualized environments.”
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