A11: VMware Meets ARCHIBUS: Managing Facilities in 25 Countries on a Single, Distributed Hardware Platform


Files:
PowerPoint Presentation [PPT]

Summary:
IBM Europe is using one single ARCHIBUS System to support 25 different countries. Most data-maintenance is performed by a non-IBM FM supplier. These vendors have different legal statuses. In some countries, external contractors are sitting inside IBM premises, using IBM Notebooks and software and are granted access to the IBM intranet. In some countries, no external supplier is allowed to have any access to the IBM-network. How to deal with this situation?

IBM installed a clone of its “IBM internal” ARCHIBUS system including the database (ORACLE) on a separate server residing on an external VM-server which is accessible via public intranet. This “satellite system” holds only data of the specific country. Each night, the “consolidated” IBM Server (behind the IBM-firewall) pulls the data via FTP into the IBM network. All IBM interfaces needed by the satellite (payment, HR, etc.) and management reporting are executed by the consolidated system. The VM-technology is used by IBM internally to reduce the number of physical servers and put its three different internal ARCHIBUS installations on one machine. This reduces hardware- and maintenance-cost dramatically.

Learning Objectives:

• Implementing ARCHIBUS on distributed platforms
• Giving external suppliers access to internal data
• Using VM-Ware

Technical-Open to All

Speaker:
Matthias Pordzik, IT Manager, IBM Germany