The Challenge
The U.S. Army Shared Services Center (SSC), part of the Army’s Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC), leads the planning, design, build, test, training, deployment and sustainment of Army ERP solutions. When the Army SSC recently updated its infrastructure, it recognized an opportunity to leverage server virtualization to maximize the utilization of it server resources, reduce acquisition and maintenance costs, and lower administrative overhead while actually improving the performance of its SAP systems which support 4,700 users.
The Result
After implementing XenServer on commodity hardware, they had a processing capacity of 147,600 SAPS on only four Dell Intel X64 servers—giving the Army SSC almost 300 percent more processing capacity with 17 fewer servers. At the same time, the Army SSC was using 83 percent fewer watts, so they achieved a dramatic improvement in processing power per watt.
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