Hiranandani Group partners HP

MUMBAI, INDIA: Mumbai-based Hiranandani Group has selected HP's Integrity Servers and HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) as the platform of choice to implement SAP ECC 6.0 across its headquarters in Mumbai and branch offices spread across Maharashtra as well as other parts of the country.

Joseph Martin, General Manager, IT, Hiranandani Group, said “The choice of HP as the IT infrastructure partner was intuitive for Hiranandani Group.The deployment was a first for us and demanded a commitment of robust assistance, support and crisis management at all times, round the clock, round the year. As a first time deployment, we needed to be assured of round the clock support and more importantly, feedback during the implementation stages and understanding of our unique business needs. All of these needs were met and exceeded by HP.”

Currently, around 300 users are operational in the system, and this number is likely to double in the next three years alone. The SAP production applications are running on HP Integrity rx2660 servers using HP-UX 11iV2.   All the production data is consolidated on the HP EVA4000 through SAN switches.

Hiranandani fully exploits the virtualization capability of the HP EVA combined with its astonishing simplicity and really pushes the storage array to deliver great performance. The Group uses its own separate backup software on an HP StorageWorks MSL2024 Tape Library with LTO drives for Data Protection.

Many businesses, like the real estate operations of Hiranandani have applications that are cyclical in nature. HP Integrity Virtual Machines, in such cases, automatically allocate larger shares of the system resources to applications during the peak usage times.

Similarly, during off-peak times, applications can automatically receive a smaller allocation of system resources. In this way, physical resources are utilized by those virtual machines where applications are experiencing a high demand for those resources.

With aggressive expansions planned in the next year, the HP platform will help Hiranandani readily scale up by over 30 percent and take additional loads without any upgrades, making a huge impact from the cost savings point of view. Most business units at Hiranandani are now part of the HP deployment and stand to gain from it.

The HP platform has effectively utilized computing power to accommodate sudden surges in activity, while automatically ramping down on power consumption when workloads are more relaxed.