Pacific Island Forum Fisheries Agency
Reliable Turnkey Solution with VMware vSphere and VEEAM as Back-Up
Highlights
Key Benefits
Background
Pacific Island Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) is an organisation funded by the United Nations that was established in 1979 which have 17 members. This organisation plays a key role to help all Pacific countries sustainably manage their tuna fisheries that fall within their 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zones (ZEE) – worth over $3 billion a year. Furthermore, this advisory body provides expertise, technical assistance and other support to its members who make sovereign decisions about their tuna resources and participate in regional decision making through agencies, such as the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC).
In 2020, Pacific Island FFA contacted our team to design and provide IT infrastructure solution for their new building in Solomon Islands. Our team took the opportunity to provide the best IT solution that suit the organisation’s needs and what they were looking to achieve. A turnkey solution seems fit to the scenario where it provides an end-to-end system that can be easily implemented into a current business process. That is why we have been supplying custom-tailored solutions in multiple occasions for almost 15 years for the success and growth of this organisation.
Challenges
The organisation was looking for a reliable partner to supply IT infrastructure for both software and hardware based on their requirement. The main challenge for us was to come up with a design from our client’s input for the whole building IT infrastructure. All hardware designed by DiGiCOR including Firewall, Switch, WiFi Access Point, either VMware non-HA Servers or VMware HA Servers, Backup Server and Storage, SAN, UPS and Rack. Besides, we also integrated our design with Licensed Software, such as VMware vSphere, Veeam Pro, Bitdefender and Adobe Acrobat Pro.
In addition, rational price tag was also part of their consideration in choosing the right solutions for their IT infrastructure. Subsequently, part of the concern during our design process was the location of the new building, which put us in a situation to think about the delivery process, system integration, installation, and test for all the hardware and software.
How We Helped
We had several meetings and discussions with the clients and were able to generate and optimise two high-quality solutions that meet the requirements, within the designated budget. Our expert team provided a turnkey solution for our client’s new building IT infrastructure, including all the required hardware, software, and licences with a 3 years RTB standard warranty which is shown in the infrastructure propose network diagram.
As a result, the client chose a solution that utilized VMware HA servers. The diagram shows how the network system is working with the integration of all components, including Switch (SW), Firewall (FW), Access Point (AP), Virtualisation Server (ESX), Infotrend Storage and Licensed Veeam Backup & Additional DC Server. The whole system has redundancy to make sure it will work well when network problem occurs. In addition, unstable internet connection and power outage made us to provide unit power supply (UPS) as a solution.
Furthermore, we were able to come up with a solution to integrate and install all the hardware and software components that is safe during the shipping progress. In addition, we also helped the client with professional services and personnel who provides professional advice for the test procedures remotely.
Featured Products
Features FortiGate 100E SeriesS
FortiGate® 100E Series(Firewall)
Threat Protection: 250 Mbps
SSL Throughput: Inspection 130 Mbps
Network Interfaces: Multiple GE RJ45, GE SFP Slots | PoE/+ Variants
Fortiswitch 424E-POE
Fortiswitch 424E-POE(Switch)
Layer 2/3 FortiGate switch controller compatible PoE+ switch
24 x GE RJ45 ports, 4 x 10 GE SFP+,Automatic Max 250W POE output limit
FortiAP-421E
FortiAP-421E(Wi-Fi Accesspoint)
The FortiAP 421E access point supports the latest 802.11ac Wave 2 standard. Additional features include 802.11ac explicit transmit beamforming (TxBF), multi-user MIMO (MU-MIMO), and more.
- 802.11ac Wave 1
- Dual Radio 2.4 and 5 GHz
- 4 External Antennas
- 2x2 MIMO
- Up to 450 + 1,300 Mbps
Features
- Chassis: 2U Rackmount Chassis, 12x3.5" Hot Swap & Optional rear 2x2.5" hot-swap SAS/SATA bays,1200W/1000W Redundant Power Supplies
- Motherboard: Serverboard with Intel C621 Chipset, Dual socket P (LGA 3647) supports Intel Xeon Scalable Processors, up to 4TB 3DS ECC RDIMM DDR4-2933MHz in 16x DIMM slots, 4x PCI-E 3.0 x16, 2x PCI-E 3.0 x8 M.2 Interface: PCI-E 3.0 x4 slots Internal Port(s), Dual LAN with GbE from C621, 10x SATA3 (6Gbps); Intel C621 controller for 14 SATA3 (6 Gbps) ports; RAID 0,1,5,10, Integrated IPMI 2.0 and KVM with Dedicated LAN
- CPU: 2x Intel® Xeon® Silver 4210R Processor 10-Core 2.4GHz 13.75MB Cache (100W)
- RAM: 96GB 2933MHz ECC RDIMM (Upgradable)
- Operating System Drive: 2x 240 GB SSD (RAID 1)
- Storage: 96 TB Raw SSD Storage (RAID 6)
- Raid Controller: LSI MegaRAID 9380-8i SAS 8 port
- Networking: Intel® 10-Gigabit Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA2, Dual SFP+ cages supporting Direct Attach Copper(DAC)
- Barebone: 1U Server supporting Dual Socket P (LGA 3647) support 2nd Gen. Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Cascade Lake/Skylake), up to 3TB 3DS ECC DDR4-2933MHz RAM in 12x DIMM slots, 2x PCI-E 3.0 x16 (FHHL) slots, 1x PCI-E 3.0 x8 (LP) slot, 1x PCI-E 3.0 x16 for Add-on-Module slot, 4x 3.5" Hot-swap SATA3 drive bays, Intel® X722 Dual port GbE LAN, Integrated IPMI 2.0 and KVM with Dedicated LAN, 750W Platinum Level redundant power supplies
- CPU: 2x Intel® Xeon® Silver 4210R Processor 10-Core 2.4GHz 13.75MB Cache (100W)
- RAM: 192GB 2933MHz ECC RDIMM
- Operating System Drive: 2x 240 GB SSD (RAID 1)
- Storage: SAN
- Storage: 96 TB Raw SSD Storage (RAID 6)
- Networking: Intel® 10-Gigabit Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA2, Dual SFP+ cages supporting Direct Attach Copper(DAC)
Features
- Barebone: 2U Server supporting dual socket R3 Intel Xeon processor E5-2600v4/v3 family, up to 768GB ECC Registered DDR4 RAM in 24 DIMM slots, 8xHot-swap 3.5"or 2.5" SAS/SATA HDD, Dual port GbE LAN, 800W Redundant Power Supply
- CPU: Eight-Core Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2609 v4 1.70GHz 20MB Cache (85W)
- RAM: 64GB 2666MHz ECC RDIMM
- Operating System Drive: 2x 240 GB SSD (RAID 1)
- Storage: 48TB SAS HDD (RAID 6)
- Raid Controller: MegaRAID 9361-8i SAS 8-port
- Networking: Intel® 10-Gigabit Ethernet Converged Network Adapter X710-DA2, Dual SFP+ cages supporting Direct Attach Copper(DAC)
Infortrend EonStor DS (Hybrid SAN)
- Chassis: Dual Redundant controllers ubsystem including 2x6Gb SAS EXP. Ports, 8x1G iSCSI ports +2x host board slot(s), 2x2GB, 2x (PSU+FAN Module), 2x (Super capacitor + Flash module), 12xHDD trays and 1xRackmount kit
- Storage: 64GB SATA HDD
PowerShield PSCERT2000
PowerShield PSCERT2000 (UPS)
PowerShield Centurion RT 2000VA True Online 3RU Rack/Tower UPS
Features:
- True double-conversion
- Output power factor 0.9
- User-friendly and electronic easy-shift LCD display
- Rack or Tower design
- Advanced ECO mode for energy saving
- Generator compatible
- Programmable power management outlets
- Emergency Power Off function (EPO)
- Hot swappable battery design
- Ideal for medium density power protection can be Extra-large charger
- 2USB, RS232, SNMP, Modbus, Environmental Monitoring and AS400 multiple communications available
- USurge Protection- 984 Joules / 22000 Amps
Certech NSR186X8
Certech NSR186X8(Rack)
CERTECH 18RU 600 (W) x 800 (D) Premier
Series Server Rack
Rack Type: NSR Premier Series
Height: 950mm
Width: 600mm
Depth: 800mm
Static Loading Capacity: 800kgs
Vmware vSphere 7 Essential
- Simplified Lifecycle Management
- Intrinsic Security and Control
- Application and Hardware Acceleration
- Streamlined Development
- Agile Operations
- Accelerated Innovation
Vmware vSphere 7 Essential is a licensed VMware’s cloud computing virtualization platform. It provides high availability for virtual machines by pooling the virtual machines and the hosts they reside into a cluster. Hosts in the cluster are monitored and in the event of a failure, the virtual machines on a failed host are restarted on alternate hosts.
Veeam Backup Essentials Standard 2
#1 Backup and Recovery solution
for small businesses
- Unified Management Experience with
- monitoring and reporting
- Protect and monitor cloud, virtual
- and physical workloads
- Reliable backup for SMBs with low
- operational overhead
Veeam Backup Essentials Standard 2 is a licensed software that delivers powerful, easy-to-use, and affordable backup, recovery, monitoring and reporting for up to 50 workloads.
Bitdefender GravityZone Elite
An integrated endpoint protection, risk management, and attack forensics platform. Enhanced with user behaviour risk analytics. Focus on Security, Detection and Prevention
- Human risk analytics
- Network attack defense
- Hyperdetect™ blocks file-less
- Attacks at pre execution
- Sandbox analyzer enhances
- Targeted attack detection
- Attack forensics exposes threat kill chain
- Risk analytics helps control risk and reduce attack surface
- Exploit defense safeguards memory
- Machine learning predicts and
- Blocks advanced attacks
Bitdefender GravityZone elite is an enterprise security solution for medium to very large organisations. This licensed software leverages Bitdefender’s acclaimed antimalware technologies and provides a centralised security management platform for physical, virtualized and mobile endpoints.
Adobe ACROBAT PRO 2020
Create PDFs and export to Word, Excel or PowerPoint
Edit text and images right in your PDF
Easily create, fill, sign and send forms
Share PDFs for viewing, reviewing, signing and track activity
Open PDFs are protected by Microsoft Information Protection solutions, including Azure Information Protection and Office 365.
Compare two versions of a PDF to review all differences
Turn scanned documents into editable, searchable PDFs
Take advantage of advanced mobile editing features
Validate and fix PDFs for ISO and accessibility standards
Adobe ACROBAT PRO 2020 is the latest licensed version of Acrobat. It is the complete desktop solution for working with PDF documents. It simplifies everyday PDF tasks and includes many productivity enhancements when working with PDFs from your desktop.
Results
It was important for us to design a solution that best fits the specific demand required by the client for the IT infrastructure. With the competition of tier 1 companies, we were able to tailor a comprehensive turnkey solution, which has the capacity to meet their workloads, within the designated budget cost. Thus, we keep building great relationships and trust with this organisation by providing a high-quality designed solution, together with our expert and internal team to meet our client’s demands through excellent customer service and support.