Jserra Catholic High School

Industry: Education

Company Size: 1,225

Location: Orange County

Challenge

Wireless coverage issues. Too many physical servers out of warranty running outdated Windows 2003 Server and Exchange 2003 with a single point of failure. Need a collaboration platform for administration.

Technologies

Xirrus Wireless
Virtualization
Exchange upgrade
SharePoint server

The Solution

Performed a Wireless Site Survey to determine lack of coverage locations. Upgraded firmware on Xirrus controllers to eliminate bug issues. Setup Virtual Machines in a Virtual Environment on new Physical Servers. Virtual environment consisted of 3 VmWare ESX hosts and VmWare vCenter for management. Reconfigured switching infrastructure to support redundancy and performance. Migrated services to new Domain Controllers on Server 2008R2. Setup Distributed Availability Groups for mailbox databases on Exchange 2010 to achieve High Availability (HA) within Exchange. Performed Exchange upgrade in co-existence mode. Deployed Microsoft SharePoint servers running within Virtual Infrastructure.

The Results

No downtime during entire deployment

Reduced number of physical servers from 10 to 3

Increased availability and redundancy on the servers and network

Microsoft Sharepoint allowed for collaboration of the many projects and school functions