CUSTOMER SNAPSHOT

“Implementing VMware virtualization enabled us to reduce the lead

KEY HIGHLIGHTS
I N D U S T R Y : M A N U FA C T U R I N G
CHALLENGE
Reverse server proliferation that threatened to
outstrip datacenter capacity while supporting
growth and improving service to the business.
SOLUTION
VMware virtualization enabled Bajaj Auto
to reduce hardware requirements while
delivering applications and services from a
flexible, dynamic infrastructure.
V M WA R E AT W O R K
• VMware Infrastructure 3, featuring ESX 3.5,
VMotion, Distributed Resource Scheduler, High
Availability
• VMware vCenter Server
DEPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENT
• ESX on HP BL460c servers, each with two Intel
Xeon E5430 2.66 GHz CPU, 16GB FBD RAM
146GB x two SAS HDD
• SAN: HP EVA4400 with 8 x 1TB disk
• Guest operating systems: Microsoft Windows
Server 2003, Microsoft Windows XP, Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5,
Novell NetWare
• Virtualized production applications: Most
applications excluding enterprise resource
planning, email, Citrix, terminal server and
resource-intensive applications
time for procuring and provisioning servers from two months to a
day at the most for VMware-friendly applications, reduce the number
of racks required to host our datacenter hardware from four to one
and centralize management of our IT infrastructure to reduce the
administrative effort.”
Raghuvir Singh Sohal, Manager- MIS
Bajaj Auto Ltd
Bajaj Auto Ltd
Headquartered in Pune, India, Bajaj Auto is the world’s fourth largest
manufacturer of two- and three-wheeler vehicles. With a brand
known across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and South and
South East Asia, Bajaj Auto is the flagship company of the diversified
Bajaj Group. To support its Indian and Indonesian factory operations,
the company operates three datacenters; a primary datacenter and
co-located server site in Pune, and a facility in Bangalore that provides
disaster recovery for its enterprise resource planning system.
To provide the IT resources required to support business growth, Bajaj
Auto had relied on acquiring new physical servers. However, as the
number of physical servers in its primary datacenter increased, the
organization realized it would soon run out of space. Rather than
build a new datacenter at considerable cost and effort, Bajaj Auto
decided to consider alternative infrastructure options. In April 2007,
the company engaged VMware and VMware Enterprise Partner Shro
Systems to implement virtualization.
“We selected VMware because it was the only offering that could
help us virtualize our heterogeneous IT environment, and because
Shro Systems had undertaken an exhaustive proof of concept to
demonstrate the benefits we could achieve,” said Raghuvir Singh
Sohal, Manager - MIS, Bajaj Auto. By May 2009, the company was
running most of its applications from an infrastructure at its primary
datacenter comprising 30 virtual machines and growing on six HP
BL460c blade servers connected to an HP EVA4400 SAN.
Results
• Reduced the number of racks required from four to one
• Cut server provisioning time to a day from approximately two
months required to procure a physical machine
• Improved server hardware availability from 98% to 99% and above
• Centralized management of datacenter infrastructure with
maintenance undertaken by one administrator
• Able to migrate a virtual machine from a compromised server to a
properly running machine with no downtime and no loss of data
within the VMware cluster attached to common SAN storage
• Reduced x86 server fleet power and cooling costs considerably

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