LEVERAGING VIRTUALIZATION FOR BEGINNING THE PRIVATE CLOUD JOURNEY

India Customer Showcase | 2019 INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY BOMBAY, MUMBAI INDUSTRY EDUCATION | HEADQUARTERS MUMBAI, MAHARASHTRA Key Challenges • Optimise utilisation of the compute resource by leveraging the best of breed hypervisor • Lay a strong and sturdy virtualisation foundation to support the open storage solution which will be the heart of the “VMware has been a trusted partner in our Cloud First initiative. With this private cloud set-up deployment we not only have a highly scalable and flexible platform, but also have • Ensure high availability of the infrastructure including the applications with 99.95% availability per month an IT setup that is extremely easy to manage. Our IT admins now have the full visibility into resource utilisation and can provision resources as needed. Apart for VMware Solutions • VMware vCenter® meeting the storage and performance requirement of the national site, we can • VMware vSphere® now provide students and project staff for their experiments or research work on-the-fly – without any delays of hardware set-up or new procurements.” Business Benefits Dr Deepak B Phatak, Professor Dept. of Computer Sc.and Engg, Flexible, agile and secure IT Faster resource provisioning and IIT Bombay, Mumbai infrastructure created, that improves improved overall resource utilisation resource manageability with centralised administration Customer Profile Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai is a public technology and science university and research No dedicated hardware requirement. institution. With a rich academic history of over 53 years it is a premier centre for technological education, and for All isolated development, test and basic and applied research in India. The institute has several HPC clusters. For a national project, it is laying the production environments can now founding stone for a private cloud to offer the best-in-class technological platform. operate together on the same underlying physical infrastructure

India Customer Showcase | 2019