BC3805

HA and DR Tripling VI3 in 6 Months at Bank Zachodni WBK (Polish Division of AIB)!

High availability and disaster recovery solutions nowadays are absolutely necessary while providing IT services in financial institutions. Learn how legal regulations and business needs drive IT to improve continuously. In a setup with 2 remote datacenters and over 450 branches HA and DR are even more important drivers of implementing virtualization than power and cooling. This is true for Bank Zachodni WBK in Poland, where a number of servers in their VI3 farm built mainly for x86 consolidation has been tripled in 6 months just because of HA and DR possibilities with VMware.
This session is a chance to see how VI3 itself provides HA and DR for x86 systems in BZWBK. In an environment 2 datacenter and over 450 branches Additionally, it will give a technical overview of some sophisticated solutions which have been implemented.

Technical Overview Session

Networking; Storage / Backup; VMware Infrastructure; Virtualization Platform / Hypervisor

1 Hour

David Hanacek( VMware,Inc. ), Krzysztof Waszkiewicz( Bank Zachodni WBK S.A. )

Krzysztof Waszkiewicz
Systems Engineer, IT Project Manager
Bank Zachodni WBK S.A.
Project Manager of x86 servers' consolidation project in Bank Zachodni WBK. Engineer in B2B systems support team and VMware administrator. Before that responsible for the roll-out of DICE project (Desktop Integrated Computer Environment) which considered central management of workstations. Driving this project in the AIB (Allied Irish Banks) group. As administrator in Wroclaw Centre of Networking and Supercomputing in the beginning, Krzysztof is looking back to more than 11 years of experience with professional IT today. He is a graduate of University of Technology in WrocÅ?aw. and certified MCSE, VCP, BCP and ITIL Foundation.

David Hanacek is a VCP who joined VMware in May 2005 as Sr. Systems Engineer covering Eastern Europe and recently took on a new role as Product Marketing Manager, EMEA. He presents, advises, and demonstrates VMware solutions daily. He visits major customers in the region and runs proof of concepts and performance benchmarks. Before VMware, David was a Pre-sales Consultant at Computacenter in Vienna and Munich. Where he consulted on Unix Enterprise Solutions for 6 years. David was recognized as VMware's worldwide best Systems Engineer 2006 during VMware's Kick-Off in San Francisco 2007.