Hospital Virtualization Project

A hospital client located in north central part of the state hired us to implement a virtual environment that would host their production servers.  The environment would eventually host additional servers as the hospital grew and implemented new systems.

The first phase of the project we installed an Intel MFSYS25v2 Modular Server System, HP ProCurve gigabit switches, and a Liebert GXT3 UPS Power unit.  The MFSYS25v2 was configured with 4 compute modules, 16GB of memory per compute module, and the onboard SAN configured with all 14 bays holding 1TB hard drives.

Three of the compute modules were configured as non-domain virtual hosts.  (The client was not not concerned with clustered fail-over so Server Enterprise was not implemented).  Two of the compute modules were configured with production servers (Exchange, File and Print, physician specific system software server).  The third was configured as a test bed server.  The fourth was configured as the spare.

The second phase of this project is getting ready to be implemented.  There are four additional virtual servers being added to the hospital's network.  These are a part of a new patient information system that that hospital has purchased.  We are adding a 5th compute module to the Intel Modular Server System to host these new servers as well as adding additional memory to the existing compute modules.  Additionally a Netgear NAS appliance is being added to the network to host the backup directories for all the production servers.  All the servers are running StorageCraft Virtual backup solution.