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Gujarat's Shah Investor's invest in VMware

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MUMBAI, INDIA: VMware, Inc. has announced that Shah Investor’s Home Ltd, a leading Gujarat (India) based stock broking, wealth management and depository services provider to investors, has deployed VMware’s virtualization platform to cost-effectively enhance availability and redundancy of business-critical systems, including an ODIN (Open Dealer Integrated Network) trading and risk management platform.

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Headquartered in Gujarat, Shah Investor’s Home Ltd has around 70 employees and is now running 10 virtual machines on three host Dell blade servers and one backup machine supported by an EMC storage system with 2.1TB capacity. The VMware platform at work includes VMware Infrastructure 3 with ESX 3.5, VMware VMotion, VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMware High Availability (HA) and VMware vCenter Server.

In December 2008, Shah Investor’s Home Ltd decided to engage with Avnet Technology Solutions India and found that their core business applications, SQL database and web servers operated very well when tested in a virtualized environment and decided to deploy VMware virtualization over Citrix and Microsoft solutions. Avnet then helped in designing and deploying VMware Infrastructure that support Shah Investor’s most business- critical ODIN platform, which executes 30,000 to 40,000 trades on behalf of its clients through a computer-to-computer link with Indian stock exchanges. 

A press release adds that by leveraging the VMware virtualization platform, Shah Investor’s Home Ltd has been able to optimize its existing servers by increasing average CPU utilization from the current level of 25 to 40 per cent to 60 per cent, whiles achieving a server consolidation ratio of 3:1. Further, it has also helped the company switch memory and CPU capacity to support database processing once a trading day is over, while reducing power and cooling costs by 20 per cent. The combination of virtualization running on servers with multi-core processors has improved performance by 30 to 40 per cent.

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Jinal Shah, Manager, Information Technology, Shah Investor’s Home Ltd said “VMware has ensured that applications such as the ODIN trading and risk management platform meet our standards of performance and availability. If we cannot complete trades, we lose clients and revenue. Deploying VMware has given our senior management team peace of mind that we can continue to operate in almost any circumstances.”

VMware virtualization has enabled Shah Investor’s Home Ltd to consolidate and virtualize the physical servers running critical business applications. The solution also allows Shah Investor’s Home to run virtual servers on alternative physical hosts in the event of a hardware problem and allocate computing resources to applications as required. They have created a clone trading application that can immediately switch on if anything happens to the primary system.