Case Study Subtitle

VMware HCI and VMware vSAN and vSphere

Website

https://www.hblasset.com/

Industry

Banking and Finance

HBL ASSET MANAGEMENT LIMITED GETS VMWARE HCI AND VMWARE VSAN AND VSPHERE

ABOUT
HBL ASSET
MANAGEMENT LIMITED

HBL Asset Management Limited (HBL AMC) is a wholly owned subsidiary of HBL, the largest commercial bank in Pakistan. The company was incorporated in February 2006 as a public limited company under the Companies Ordinance 1984. The company launched its first fund in 2007 and has developed a track record of strong and consistent growth over the past decade.

BENEFITS

  • Greater performance levels in disk speed
  • Reduced storage costs to get performance levels associated with SSD speeds
  • Adaptive data placement and improved failure handling
  • Performance Improvements through faster optimization

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

HBL Asset Management must be having High-Availability and performance for data storage. They need both infrastructure and server resources and Hybrid Technologies provided them with VMware VSAN which differs in many respects when compared to counterparts in the market and HCI which features such as flexible disk space, extension capability, easy management, high performance played a crucial role in the vSAN choice

CHALLENGES

Today, the most critical asset for organizations is data. Data must be stored in the most effective way and processed when needed. HBL Asset Management had to invest in both infrastructure and server resources since the storage units completed a certain lifetime in the traditional architecture that has been used for many years. In the past, HBL Asset Management used an infrastructure consisting of server SAN switch and storage units, referred to as classical architecture. Facing application performance and manageability issues. Some application running on standalone physical server, having availability and scalability issues. Monitoring the critical infrastructure and is also a challenge for him.

SOLUTION, RETURN ON INVESTMENT AND FUTURE PLANS

The classical IT infrastructure has been transformed into a persistent infrastructure using the latest hardware and software products, in accordance with today’s technology. During this transformation, Hyper Integrated Infrastructure (HCI), which is a part of developing software technologies, was used. HBL Asset Management Found that VMware vSAN software was the most suitable solution for them and established the enterprise continuity infrastructure with vSAN hybrid mode. HBL Asset Management saw that VMware vSAN solution differs in many respects when compared to counterparts in the market. The features such as flexible disk space, extension capability, easy management, high performance played a crucial role in the vSAN choice. With VMware technologies, the HBL Asset Management has achieved its targeted infrastructure. The existing infrastructure is a hyper-integrated infrastructure with servers and virtualization software (vSAN, vSphere) and for monitoring the HCI infrastructure with VMware vRealize operation.

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