FINANCIAL SERVICES -
INDIAN BANK
Management through automation - IT and Network Infrastructure
"XpedITe and the AIM system gave us the confidence to make the right decisions on planning, moves and changes as the system automates the complete cabling connectivity and network asset discovery. Server-level connectivity management with full visual guidance helps all major data center support teams. These benefits have given our team peace of mind when it comes to operating our facility safely and efficiently."
- Data Center Network and Cabling Manager, Leading Bank in India
Client: Leading bank in India
Industry: Financial Services
Location: India
Our client is an Indian multinational government public sector banking body with its corporate center in Mumbai and other offices (Local Head Offices, Regional Branch Offices, Area Offices etc.) in various cities across the country.
To meet their growing network demands for its data centers and Disaster Recovery Centers, the bank which is the largest in India has set up a global IT center with a total capacity of around 1000 high density racks.
Our Client's Challenge
Our client was embarking on a significant investment which required an intelligent hardware and software solution to manage, monitor and enable management of their data center infrastructure.
With over 1000 high density racks and multiple server halls, intelligent cabling for a spine/leaf architecture with thousands of devices and ports the only solution for our client was automated infrastructure management.
The main challenges were:
- Automated connectivity management and infrastructure management.
- Automation for provisioning, equipment deployment and real time IP discovery.
- The requirement to have end-to-end information for all IT asset dependencies.
- Visualization of all assets and data halls.
- Effective and efficient capacity and asset management.
"Reduced provisioning and maintenance times with human errors eliminated."
Our solution
Among a number of capabilities, XpedITe has the ability to provide automated infrastructure management across an entire estate.
With our product, our client has the confidence that that data center teams can accurately discover and visualise their IT and network infrastructure anytime and from anywhere. They can remote manage their high density racks and network connections with XpedITe offering a detailed and accurate graphical view of all cabinets, so that our client has both visibility and reassurance on the accuracy details of all installed assets.
Automating physical connectivity was a critical part of the deployment. It is now very easy for our customer to make connections between patch panels, servers and network switches etc. guided by XpedITe to ensure accurate location and port identities as well as guaranteeing the correct redundant paths. All this with minimal resource overhead and the reduction in potential for human error.
In addition, the IT provisioning and network discovery capabilities have been invaluable. This area is completely automated so that our customer can pinpoint the optimal location for new equipment and automatically plan the provisioning of new assets in the right location. This results in accurately planned end-to-end connectivity information for all IT packages with guaranteed redundant paths for both network and power. Everything they need to do is guided by our system. Their technicians can accurately identify work orders and in turn reduce the resource overhead for both deployment planning and maintenance activities.
Accurate asset tracking is also essential in any data center, so our asset recording and documentation feature provides our clients with a reliable visual display of all deployed asset across all data centers within their estate, including both IT and non-IT assets.
Visual Details
- 1000 Cabinets in Four Server Halls.
- 1000 + Managed Copper Patch Panels.
- 600 + Managed Fiber Trays.
- 1500 + Modular 24 Core Managed Fiber Cassettes.
- 100 + MPO Trays on 100G Network.
- 150 + Controllers (Collector, Scanner) to Manage the Entire Cabling Installation.
- 81,000 Nodes / Assets Captured in XpedITe.
Connectivity:
Automating physical connectivity was a critical part of the deployment. It is now very easy for our customer to make connections between patch panels, servers and network switches etc.
Provisioning:
The IT provisioning and network discovery capabilities have been invaluable. This area is completely automated so that our customer can pinpoint the optimal location for new equipment and automatically plan the provisioning of new assets in the right location.
Asset Management:
Accurate asset tracking is also essential in any data center, so our asset recording and documentation feature provides our clients with a reliable visual display of all deployed asset across all data centers within their estate, including both IT and non-IT assets.
True integration of:
IT infrastructure,
CRM, BMS
What our client values about XpedITe
RiT Tech's solution has increased operational efficiencies and reduced resource overhead as well as improving time to service for this state-of-the-art data center Disaster Recovery facility.
Through a fully automated and managed cabling site our client now has the following capabilities:
- Asset tracking, real-time cabling routing and patching documentation.
- Deployed equipment documentation (IT and non-IT).
- Monitoring and alerts.
- Complete patching guidance with LED confirmation on Smart Panel and Servers.
- Accurate real-time visibility into the physical connectivity & improved network output.
- Reduced provisioning and maintenance times with human errors eliminated.
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