Case Study: Chinese University achieves seamless IT consolidation with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Prominent Chinese University Seamlessly Consolidates it Systems with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

The Chinese University in Beijing needed a flexible, highly reliable, and easy-to-manage infrastructure to support campus IT services, legacy applications, and multiple operating systems. After evaluating virtualization options, it selected Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization from Red Hat to consolidate its datacenter systems onto a single platform.

Red Hat implemented Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, helping the university unify management and monitoring across its IT environment. The results were significant: deployment time dropped from hours to minutes, server rebuilding and application loading fell from 40 hours to 30 minutes, and maintenance could be done with zero downtime. The university also consolidated nearly 200 virtual application servers onto 9 physical machines, reducing hardware costs and improving resource utilization.