WAUKEGAN, Ill. – Consumers CU said it has deployed VMware Infrastructure, a datacenter virtualization and management suite, as the enterprise-wide business platform for its rapidly expanding operations.
The $475 million credit union, which recently broke ground on a seventh branch, is building out its virtual IT infrastructure. The credit union currently has 30 virtual machines running on three physical hosts, for a 10:1 server consolidation ratio. The company’s business-critical applications are running in the virtualized environment, including helpdesk management, RSA multi-factor authentication, Fiserv IntellegEnt CRM, mortgage origination, loan collections, Crystal Reports from Business Objects, and Summit Teller Advantage for in-branch transaction management.
The 30 virtual machines running on VMware Infrastructure support a combination of Windows, Red Hat Linux and Novell SUSE Linux applications.
Consumers CU also is using VMware VirtualCenter to monitor and manage its entire virtual infrastructure, and VMware’s server templates have enabled CCU to provision virtual machines in 20 minutes. In addition, it is leveraging virtualization to bring disaster recovery in-house for the first time in the credit union’s history.
