Shanghai General Motors Co., Ltd. through the use of VMware's advanced virtualization technology simplifies the company's server management and deployment. The Virtual Infrastructure and VMware VirtualCenter Help Shanghai General Motors (SGM) at no extra cost, we also achieved a fast server upgrades and maintenance, makes upgrades and maintenance time reduced from the past few days to the present within an hour without interruption of production, thereby safeguarding business continuity.
SGM need the system to quickly deploy and maintain, flexible deployment of resources
Shanghai General Motors Co., Ltd. is the only company in China After the completion of 8 years in sales over 1 million in business, while only one was elected for 5 years "China's most respected companies," the Motor Company. To ensure normal operation of enterprises, SGM in the production system requires regular maintenance, but because of SGM to be continuous uninterrupted production run, leaving the system for maintenance and upgrading of management time is very limited. In addition, production systems need to regularly deploy new applications, some of which application to install a longer period, complex configuration steps, the system is not conducive to rapid deployment of enterprise needs. And the production system needs in accordance with the importance of different degrees of backup and security solutions. Other specific relevant requirements are as follows:
* Companies need to quickly realize the system, especially in hardware upgrades and maintenance
* Need to rapidly deploy applications, providing real-time service
* Need to be higher cost, the production of some important backup system applications
* Need to be quickly eliminated previously required the application of rapid migration to the new environment
* Need to reduce the number of hardware devices in order to reduce the number of maintenance, saving space and energy consumption in data centers
ESX and Virtual Center, Vmotion features reduce downtime
VMware, in view of the above GE requirements, to help SGM in Shanghai and Yantai were deployed virtualization applications, mainly for Jinqiao Powertrain and Yantai Dong Yue Automotive Powertrain manufacturing system. So far a total of nearly a hundred virtual machines running, mainly manufacturing system, but also include system development and testing environment, can be unified through the Virtual Center management, enabling rapid migration and resource scheduling. The virtualization program implementation, the results are quite remarkable:
* In the SGM, there is a lot of the production system similar, but different application areas, each installation and deployment of production systems are complex, long or even take several weeks, through the use of virtualization program, after the deployment of complete set of system , using the template functions to advance the common characteristics of good system configuration into a template, will soon be able to clone a new system. Shorten the deployment time, reduce the differences caused by hardware deployment.
* Previously, SGM critical applications must be prepared to a cold standby system environment, so that the input for the system hardware is double. Application virtualization program, the key to the system as a preparation machine from the virtual machine. From a cost point of Jinqiao Powertrain project only saved about 100 million yuan.
* After using virtualization programs, the deployment of new applications in the past, from the arrival of procurement requests to the device, installation, configuration, need about 3 months time, but now using virtual machine templates to create a new server application, only need about a hours.
* Application virtualization program, the server utilization from an average of 5% of the original upgrade to the current 40%.
ยท SGM using VMware's Vmotion features, online application system to achieve the switch to ensure continuous operation of production systems.
* If you want to scrap in the previous application server migration, the need to re-install the new server system and application again, but also complex testing and migration time. By VMware's Converter tool, can be a number of critical applications migrate from the old server to the new environment quickly, migration time decreased from the previous months to 1 days.
Using online transfer function, VMotion security SGM business continuity
In manufacturing, the production system is critical applications. Continuous operation stability of the system for normal production of enterprises is very important significance. If in order to maintain and upgrade the system, which led to the production system downtime, will affect the production process. Before the implementation of virtualization projects, if you want to upgrade or repair the server, you need to check the production cycle, to find a suitable time to arrange the closing and switching servers. Therefore, such a server upgrade and switch the cooperation between various departments necessary to complete the process and if the switch is not smooth, it will affect the production, a great deal of problems and therefore are reluctant manufacturing sector proposed system upgrade or migration needs.
Through the deployment of ESX Server to the production system migration to a virtualized environment, if the a single physical machine require hardware or software upgrades, you can use VMotion tool for online migration, without interrupting the production process of the case will be a physical machine to virtual All machines migrated to another server, to achieve a continuous production process. So that the production sector according to their production cycle without the need to raise the demand for the system upgrade, but can be made at any time according to their needs related to system requirements.
SGM through the implementation of virtualization success in reducing the server and storage equipment to buy the quantity, but also reduce the need for data center space occupied, reducing the requirements of electricity and air conditioning bill. Shanghai General Motors Co., Ltd. Information Systems Director Chen Ying Jian Biao Shi: "By using VMware's virtualization technology, upgrading and maintenance of our system Shide's Shijian shortened from the past, the number of Dao Xian Zai's one hour of Nei, Qi Ye therefore Nenggouwuxu interrupt production, effective protection of the business continuity. while improving server utilization, but also saves data center space, as we save a lot of cost. "