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Our Lady of Consolation Aged Care implement Microsoft Hyper-V high availability solution

29 November 2010

In anticipation of upgrading some of their core enterprise applications in 2011, Our Lady of Consolation Aged Care Services (OLOC) needed to expand the capacity of their server infrastructure.

OLOC were already familiar with the benefits of server virtualisation. The existing servers were implemented in 2006, and utilised Microsoft Virtual Server 2005 to allow consolidation of 8 virtual servers to run on just two physical host servers. Therefore it was logical to look to a Microsoft Hyper-V solution for the new server infrastructure.

Expanded capacity is not the only benefit OLOC will yield from the new infrastructure. An iSCSI network storage appliance was also implemented to leverage Hyper-V's Live Migration and Cluster Shared Volumes features. These features provide high-availability and improved load balancing capabilities for OLOC's new server infrastructure.
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