High Availability Infrastructure Solutions for Automotive

Polaris designs, engineers, manufactures and markets snowmobiles, all-terrain vehicles (ATVs), RANGER Utility Vehicles and Victory Motorcycles. The corporate headquarters are located in Medina, Minnesota, but their geographical presence reaches across several continents.

• Consolidate IT infrastructure to central data center
• Deploy servers faster to meet constant demand of new applications
• Enhance server resources while reducing budget
• Maintain 24/7 availability for worldwide users
• Efficiently migrate legacy hardware to virtual world

• Consolidated environment onto 15 HP ProLiant BL25p server blades configured with Dual-Core AMD Opteron processors and HP StorageWorks products
• Implemented solution featuring more than 60 virtual machines running on HP BladeSystem
• Deployed host of software products, including HP Systems Insight Manager, HP Rapid Deployment Pack and HP Virtual Machine Management Pack

• Simplified cabling at the data center
• Reduced server deployment from 4-6 hours down to minutes
• Achieved 24/7 availability around the globe
• Reduced server purchases by 40 percent, yet increased server inventory by 50 percent
• Lowered server deployment costs up to 65 percent

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