Yancheng Tobacco Company introduces Dell server to upgrade data center

Jiangsu Province Yancheng Tobacco Monopoly Company (Bureau) (hereinafter referred to as "Yancheng Tobacco Company") was formed in 1983, mainly in accordance with the People's Republic of China Tobacco monopoly Law and the implementation of the Regulations, on behalf of the State to exercise cigarette wholesale operation and market management two rights. Over the years, Yancheng tobacco Company to market-oriented, science and technology as a tool to actively promote their own work to achieve high efficiency, scientific and sustainable development. In the information construction, it has established the "telephone to visit sales, online distribution, electronic settlement, modern logistics" as one of IT management system, the use of information means to achieve the tobacco monopoly, management of the two major work of coordinated development, the company overall showing a stable and healthy development trend.

Facing the good development situation, Yancheng Tobacco company did not stop the aggressive step. In a highly responsible manner to the tobacco industry, it has a comprehensive and meticulous assessment of its own IT system, and has found some problems that need to be improved: with the continuous expansion, IT system has a number of servers, low utilization of resources, it maintenance workload, room space shortage, power costs are increasing and so on. In addition, data storage is relatively fragmented, even though some of the data stored centrally is not automated for tiered storage. Storage systems do not automatically streamline configuration to provide a reasonable capacity for long-term development.

In the face of the above problems, Yancheng tobacco company hopes to start from its own IT development, focus on the future, from the concept level to actively find solutions to the source of the solution. Yancheng Tobacco Company Network Information Center Mr. Sun Kinliu said: "We hope that with the development of the vision to think about problems, adhere to the road of innovation." To this end, we have put forward two important principles. First of all, in the realistic level, to solve the problem of excessive number of servers, low utilization of resources, lack of room space and so on, secondly, in the long-term consideration, laying the road of sustainable development. ”

After a long period of market research, Dell's idea of simplifying it has won the favor of Yancheng tobacco company. After lengthy communication and communication with Dell, Yancheng tobacco Company finally decided to introduce the Dell PowerEdge R910 server based on intel® xeon® processor + Dell Compellent Storage Center 40 storage solution. Use VMware virtual software to upgrade the company's original it information Infrastructure platform. 4 PE R910 Server virtual out of more than 30 virtual machines, supporting the administration, financial management, personnel management, e-mail and other 30 it applications. Dell Compellent Storage Center 40 provides data storage services for these virtual machines. In the future, with the gradual application of depth, the company will also expand the total size of virtual machines to 40-50 units. In addition, Dell provides 5 years of professional technical support services, including 7x24 telephone technical support, and 4-hour response with spare parts onsite service. The Dell Technical Account Manager (TAM), as a single contact, will be responsible for technical consultation and rapid collaboration with third party vendors such as Intel.

At present, Yancheng Tobacco Company's IT system virtualization upgrade project has been successfully completed, the relevant application system has also completed the transfer to the virtual system and run for some time. On the actual performance of the Dell platform, Sun Jin said: "First of all, in the host side, through the implementation of virtualization, our server scale reduced by 70%, the room occupancy rate increased 65%,it technical staff maintenance burden of 50% reduction, only a 1-year power consumption can save at least 30,000 yuan." It can be said that we have achieved our expectations in simplifying it. Secondly, on the storage side, with the introduction of Dell Compellent Storage, storage System optimized configuration efficiency increased 2-3 times, total cost of ownership decreased by about 30%-40%, data security also greatly improved. In particular, through the introduction of automated streamlined configuration technology, we Yancheng the tobacco company's it storage platform to achieve a scientific combination of forward capacity planning and recent storage, that is, using the most reasonable investments to gain both near-term and long-term benefits of the storage system. ”