The Finance company faces several challenges in their journey towards modernization:
Application Portability: The existing applications are tightly coupled to the underlying infrastructure, making it difficult to migrate them to newer environments without significant refactoring.
Resource Utilization: The traditional VM-based deployment model leads to resource inefficiencies due to over-provisioning and underutilization.
Operational Complexity: Managing both VMs and containers separately adds operational overhead and complexity to their IT teams.
The Finance company decides to implement vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC) to address their challenges. Here's how they leverage VIC to modernize their application deployment:
Containerizing Applications: The Finance company starts by containerizing their existing applications using VIC. They use tools like Docker to package their applications into containers, ensuring portability and independence from the underlying infrastructure.
Integration with vSphere: With VIC, The Finance company can seamlessly integrate containerized applications with their existing vSphere infrastructure. This allows them to manage containers alongside VMs using familiar vSphere tools and interfaces.
Resource Optimization: By deploying containers on vSphere, The Finance company improves resource utilization. They leverage features like DRS (Distributed Resource Scheduler) to dynamically allocate resources based on application demand, reducing over-provisioning and improving efficiency.
Operational Efficiency: VIC simplifies operations by providing a unified management interface for both VMs and containers.
By adopting vSphere Integrated Containers, The Finance company achieves the following benefits:
Increased Agility: Containerizing applications and leveraging VIC enables The Finance company to deploy and scale applications more quickly, enhancing agility and responsiveness to market demands.
Improved Resource Utilization: The utilization of resources improves significantly, leading to cost savings and better ROI on their infrastructure investments.
Reduced Operational Complexity: Managing containers alongside VMs within the same infrastructure simplifies operations and reduces the learning curve for IT teams, leading to improved efficiency and reduced risk of errors.
Future-Proof Infrastructure: With VIC, The Finance Company builds a foundation for future growth and innovation, enabling them to adopt modern application architectures and technologies with ease.
