CAT THIX needed to upgrade their server infrastructure to improve performance, availability, and efficiency. They consolidated 40 physical servers onto 4 Cisco UCS Blade servers, reducing costs for space, power, and cooling. The Cisco UCS solution improved management and allowed new systems to be provisioned faster.

2. Cisco Systems
Data Center and Virtualization
Unified Computing System

3. CAT THIX (Thailand Internet Gateway)

4. What we found to be the
PRE-PROJECT ENVIRONMENT

5. Pre-Project Environment
CAT THIX had over 40 physical
servers and continuing growth
demands.
Existing servers are unable to
achieve the desired workloads.
Memory and I/O were constrained
and used excessive power.
The existing infrastructure was siloed
between compute, network, and
storage technologies

6. What we found to be the
CHALLENGE

7. The Challenge
Refresh the server infrastructure for
increased availability and agility and
improved cost-effective IT services.
Consolidate existing physical rack-
mounted servers to virtual
server/virtual machines.
Improve space and power utilization
so as to postpone or prevent
expensive new data center build-
outs.

8. “AIT designed and implemented the Cisco
Unified Computing System™ (UCS).”
What we found to be the
SOLUTION

9. The Solution
Consolidate the 40 rack-
mount servers by
converting them to virtual
servers though the use of 4
UCS B200-M2 blade
servers, providing
significant infrastructure,
space, power, and cooling
savings.

10. WAN Link
Main Site DR Site
Fabrics Interconnect
UCS Manager Nexus Nexus UCS Rack Series
VMware Virtual Infrastructure
Blade Chassis
And
SAN SW SAN SW
Blade Server SAN SW
VMware Virtual Infrastructure
DB
DB

11. What we found to be the
BENEFITS &
RETURN ON INVESTMENTS

12. Return on Investment
Cost saving through easier maintenance
Fewer infrastructure components to
provision, monitor, maintain, power, cool,
and repair.
Enabled Management of the entire solution
as a single entity through the Cisco UCS
Manager.
Improves IT productivity and business
agility by reducing the time and complexity
to provision new systems. New
infrastructure can be provisioned in minutes
instead of days.