project: VMware vCloud Director & vRealize Automation – Design & Implementation

VMware vCloud Director & vRealize Automation – Design & Implementation

Scope

Customer wanted to quickly deploy Windows and Linux servers for Staging application tests from a service catalog.

Challenge

The applications that needed to be tested involved several components which required customization at setup phase resulting in a lengthy test process.

Several teams with a mix of skills were involved in the project including teams of Database administrators and certificate administrators. Cross-team communication had to be carefully coordinated to ensure that product development stages could proceed smoothly especially when dependencies were required.

Solution

The customer requested a Proof-of-Concept using vCloud Director since at the time, the customer believed this was the best approach. However Sascha demonstrated through detailed testing, that this was not the ideal solution in the long term. The customer accepted the advice and requested an alternative approach using vRealise Automation.

vRealise Automation and vRealise Orchestration formed the ideal solution in this scenario. The solution involved the deployment of several Virtual Machines, customization including certificates and database tuning.

The new test environment consisted of Virtual Machines which were customized and baselined with vRealise for quick deployment. The Cataloged items offered instant setup of a fully working test environment for use by the Quality Assurance team.

Value

The customer saved up to 95% of preparation time for the testing environment. The Testing team became more through improved control on the lifecycle of the testing environment resulting in further savings in server hardware, storage and networking equipment.

03/2013 - 04/2015

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