Cisco Cisco UCS B230 M2 Blade Server Guia De Informação
Customer Case Study
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Challenge
Travelport is a leading provider of transaction-processing solutions for companies in the
global travel industry. It provides technical operations support and content-processing
services for 420 airlines, 60,000 travel agencies, and online travel services.
global travel industry. It provides technical operations support and content-processing
services for 420 airlines, 60,000 travel agencies, and online travel services.
Travelport’s expansive Linux and Windows systems already serve millions of customers
annually. As the company looked forward five years, the Travelport Technical
Operations (TTO) organization realized that its current server and network infrastructure
strategy would require considerable manpower and significant equipment expansion to
meet anticipated growth. The network and server teams were already operating at near
capacity.
annually. As the company looked forward five years, the Travelport Technical
Operations (TTO) organization realized that its current server and network infrastructure
strategy would require considerable manpower and significant equipment expansion to
meet anticipated growth. The network and server teams were already operating at near
capacity.
Travelport’s server infrastructure was growing steadily. In 2008, the data center
installed 2021 physical servers and 214 virtual machines (VMs). Since then, the
company has deployed an average of 125 servers and 66 VMs per month. With
4800 physical servers, 1700 virtual servers, and no end in sight, simply deploying
servers fast enough was a challenge. With multiple access layer switches and
multiple applications running between servers, Travelport’s network backbone needed
significant additional capacity.
installed 2021 physical servers and 214 virtual machines (VMs). Since then, the
company has deployed an average of 125 servers and 66 VMs per month. With
4800 physical servers, 1700 virtual servers, and no end in sight, simply deploying
servers fast enough was a challenge. With multiple access layer switches and
multiple applications running between servers, Travelport’s network backbone needed
significant additional capacity.
In addition to virtualizing as many servers as possible, Travelport wanted to reduce the
time required to deploy server infrastructure. The majority of staff time was dedicated
to managing server requests and server-related application projects, and each new
server or VM host required several man-weeks to be placed into production.
Travelport also maintains a global product development team that works nonstop.
Rapid deployment of product development and user testing servers
was critical to the company’s agile development efforts.
time required to deploy server infrastructure. The majority of staff time was dedicated
to managing server requests and server-related application projects, and each new
server or VM host required several man-weeks to be placed into production.
Travelport also maintains a global product development team that works nonstop.
Rapid deployment of product development and user testing servers
was critical to the company’s agile development efforts.
Travel Services Provider Gains World-class
Efficiency and Scalability
Challenge
• Business goals were outpacing
infrastructure capabilities
• Server and network management
was increasingly time consuming
and complex
• Infrastructure performance
and resiliency did not meet
company standards
Solution
• Cisco Unified Computing System
with Intel
®
Xeon
®
5500 and 5600
series based blades
• Cisco Nexus 5000 and 7000
Series Switches
• Cisco Services Unified Computing
System Implementation Service
Results
• Increased cabling and hardware
efficiency by eight times
• Consolidated switches from 12 to
4, reducing costs for hardware,
port, cabling, cooling, and power
• Reduced server deployment time
from weeks to hours
Executive Summary