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Consultants of Softline in "Far Eastern Distribution Network Company" unrolled virtual infrastructure on the VMware vSphere platform and the training for personnel on setup of virtual environment is provided.

JSC Far Eastern Distribution Network Company (JSC DRSK) works as a part of RAO Energy Systems of East holding. JSC DRSK provides transfer of electrical energy through distribution networks in territories of the Amur region, Khabarovsk Krai, the Jewish Autonomous Region, Primorsky Krai, the Southern Region of Sakha (Yakutia) Republic. The company renders services in transfer and distribution of electrical energy, supervisory control and observance of the modes of energy saving and energy consumption, accession to the electric networks, collecting, transfer and processing of technology information, including data of measurements and accounting and many others.

For acquaintance to technologies of virtualization, efficiency evaluation of their use "Far Eastern Distribution Network Company" addressed to Softline company which specialists suggested the client to carry out software implementation of VMware vSphere according to the Jupmstart program.

"The consulting VMware vSphere Jumpstart program enjoys wide popularity among our customers more than four years and to that there is a number of the serious reasons: we use a unique technique for start of a system literally in three days, we train the client's specialists, and all this is at very affordable price. All these factors sharply reduce risks and initial costs of the customer on the project on upgrade of IT", – the director of the department of virtualization of Softline company Pavel Novikov says.

During the project specialists of Softline on the equipment of the customer deployed ESXi-servers, configured connections of virtual infrastructure to corporate networks of information transfer, connected storage systems. For centralized operation virtual environment set VMware vCenter Server, access isolation to virtual infrastructure is configured, the systems of a clustering are created, rules of functioning and policy are set. On the next stage migration of applications is carried out to virtual environment, use priorities are set by virtual machines of physical service lives. All actions for deployment of the platform and start of services of the customer are executed by the certified technical specialist of Softline company together with engineers from the customer that allowed to purchase them necessary skills for further support of the solution.

In addition within expansion of the program skills training of employees of the client on a business continuity subject within which specific recommendations about achievement of required level of fault tolerance of infrastructure were made was provided. Also failover clusters of virtual machines, a backup system and objects of its automation were configured.

"Solutions of VMware allow the companies not only to reduce costs for development and operation of IT infrastructure, but also provide unprecedented disaster tolerance and the continuity of business processes. These characteristics for the companies of financial and telecommunication spheres, the enterprises of the industrial and power industries are especially important", – the technical director of VMware in Russia and the CIS Tkachyov Vladimir notes.

[["Virtualization – one of technologies which the companies focused on efficiency and dynamism cannot refuse. We are glad that took advantage of the offer of Softline on project organization with express training of our specialists. In the shortest possible time we received ready virtual infrastructure, the prepared personnel for its maintenance and, as a result, an opportunity more effectively to use our IT resources", – commented on the project [[Artyomov Nikolay Stepanovich|"Virtualization – one of technologies which the companies focused on efficiency and dynamism cannot refuse. We are glad that took advantage of the offer of Softline on project organization with express training of our specialists. In the shortest possible time we received ready virtual infrastructure, the prepared personnel for its maintenance and, as a result, an opportunity more effectively to use our IT resources", – commented on the project Artyomov Nikolay Stepanovich, the CIO of JSC DRSK.]]