Customers: St. Petersburg state architectural and construction university (SPBGASU)
Contractors: Softline Product: Microsoft Windows Azure PackSecond product: Microsoft Hyper-V Project date: 2017/01 - 2017/02
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On March 28, 2017 the Softline company announced migration on the Hyper-V virtualization platform and setup of the Azure Pack web portal at the St. Petersburg state architectural and construction university.
Project Progress
Within upgrade of cloud infrastructure the university together with Softline company carried out migration of the virtualization platform on Microsoft Hyper-V. For infrastructure management experts of Softline suggested to implement the Microsoft Azure Pack software product.
Before the Azure Pack setup Hyper-V examination then specialists of Softline consulted the customer concerning debugging of network and the data warehouse is conducted.
Project Results
The web portal simplified work with cloud infrastructure. Users independently operate virtual machines within the created roles: students can start and stop them, teachers - to create. Only technical specialists have an access to creation of templates of machines.
Ease of use – main advantage of the solution. Users operate virtual machines using the web portal and templates created on it therefore there is no need to install the Virtual Machine Manager console and to perform difficult tunings. Vitaly Popov, the head of department of projects in regions of the Russian Federation of department of infrastructure solutions of Microsoft of Softline company |
Thanks to migration on Hyper-V and the Azure Pack setup we upgraded cloud infrastructure of university. We managed to make service of virtual machines closer to end users: to teachers and students. Using a set of standard templates, the teacher can independently create virtual laboratory under problems of the training course, quickly providing to students access to use of computing resources for the solution of applied and scientific tasks. Such approach brings service to the new level of availability and reduces load of technical specialists of management of IT. Mikhail Ivanov, head of department of IT SPBGASU |