CMI FPE adopts VMware vSphere 4

MUMBAI, INDIA: VMware, Inc., a global player in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, has announced that CMI FPE, the Indian subsidiary of Belgian services and engineering Group CMI (Cockerill Maintenance & Ingénierie) has implemented VMware vSphere 4, a platform for data center virtualization, at the vSeminar Series in Mumbai, which was attended by over 350 IT professionals.

VMware’s application had aided the Mumbai headquartered CMI FPE to overcome the limitations of its physical server and improve the performance of the company’s SAP Application threefold, said a press release.

By implementing VMware vSphere 4, CMI FPE has been able to overcome all sorts of outages of its physical infrastructure which constricted the company’s performance. Providing smoother performance of the SAP application, VMware has improved CMI FPE’s overall business functionalities - ranging from the company’s sales and distribution to accounting to the management departments, said the release.

The prime highlights of the implementation include a 4:1 server consolidation ratio and above all improving the utilization rate of server hardware from 10-15 percent to an unbelievable 70-80 percent.

Speaking at the vSeminar Series Vijay Karayi, director, Management Assurance, Quality Management Systems and chief information officer, CMI FPE, said, “We had been running SAP ECC5 on a small cluster of ageing servers, if one of these experienced an outage, we would experience a huge performance degradation.”

“By following the standard format of one application per server, CMI FPE was investing a huge amount in the hardware but was deprived of performance in terms of return. By adopting virtualization we have been able to overcome all the shortcomings of the physical machines, without compromising performance along with increasing the hardware utilization significantly,” Karayi added.