Dell and State of Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles - Taking the Thruway to Virtualization
We’re going to save the State of Nevada quite a bit of money with the Dell and VMware solution. This solution should be looked at anybody who has numerous servers, and Dell Services have made this transition painless and seamless for us.
— Bill Bernard, Network Manager, State of Nevada DMV
Challenge
The Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is growing as a result of the phenomenal growth of Nevada. The result was server sprawl and rising costs, facts which were noted by the network group which was responsible for 1,400 desktops and notebooks along with 108 servers at the DMV’s Carson City headquarters.Solution
With the help of Dell Global Infrastructure Consulting Services, the DMV explored and implemented a virtualized infrastructure using Dell™ PowerEdge™ servers running VMware® ESX Server. A Dell/ EMC SAN is providing virtualized storage capacity and a second Dell/EMC SAN provides replicated disaster recovery and production capabilities at one of the DMV’s Las Vegas sites.Benefits
Get IT Faster: 83% faster deployment, project completed in 6-weeks vs. anticipated 9 months thanks to help from Dell Services
Run IT Better: Ability to maintain and deploy servers without disrupting users; 96% faster rollout of new servers; 88% faster server updates; 97% faster responses to questions with Dell services
Grow IT Smarter: 26 replacement servers removed from 2010 budget (roughly $150,000 in savings); Reduction in power and cooling costs and energy consumption
