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An accounting firm in Los Angeles started having issue with its servers when it started to add applications. Virtualization helped solve that problem.Further, it helped the firm, Lodgen, Lacher, Golditch, Sardi, Saunders, & Howard, LLP (LLGSSH CPA), to be more competitive with other accounting firms.
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CPA Firm Finds ThAT The numbers Add uP wiTh VirTuAlizATion
Lodgen, Lacher, Golditch, Sardi, Saunders, & Howard, LLP (LLGSSH CPA) is a Los Angeles-based CPA firm with
60 employees.
To support its operations, the firm had historically relied on physical servers to host its critical accounting
applications and Windows-based infrastructure. Unfortunately, the firm reached a point where new applications
were creating conflicts with applications already on the server. “As a small to midsized business, we don’t have
unlimited resources,” says Scott Goldman, IT Manager at LLGSSH CPA. “We can’t have a physical server for
each application.”
Virtualization provided an effective way for LLGSSH CPA to tackle this challenge. The firm deployed
VMware vSphere 4—the most trusted and reliable virtualization platform in the industry—onto servers with
the latest Intel Xeon processors. “I like how Intel has integrated and enabled features within their chipset to
work with VMware technology,” says Goldman. “For example, I can use enhanced VMware VMotion to live-
migrate machines amongst different physical boxes—even if they have different generations of Intel CPUs.”
Having a virtual infrastructure in place has enabled LLGSSH to quickly and easily provision dedicated Windows
servers for new accounting applications, eliminating potential system conflicts and simplifying IT administration.
“With virtualization, we are able to better compete against other CPA firms by deploying servers and additional
services that we otherwise would not have been able to,” concludes Goldman.
“A marginal investment in VMware technology can result in huge gains in terms of productivity
or competitive advantage—and having Intel technology helps ensure that you can get the
most out of the investment you make.”
Scott GoldmanIT Manager, Lodgen, Lacher, Golditch,
Sardi, Saunders, & Howard, LLP
indusTrY ProFeSSIonAL SerVICeS
HIGHLIGHTS
CHALLENGE
Physical IT infrastructure hinders growth of small firm
SOLUTION
VMware® and Intel® technology creates a scalable IT platform that simplifies IT administration and improves availability of critical applications
VMWARE AND INTEL AT WORK
VMware vSphere 4, featuring:
VMware eSX•™ Server
° Dell 2950 servers with Intel Xeon 5300 and 5400 processors attached to a Dell MD3000i SAn
VMware• VirtualCenter 4.0
VMware• VMotion™
VMware• Distributed resource Scheduler (DrS)
VMware• High Availability (HA)
DEPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENT
Guest operating systems: Windows 2003, •
Windows 2008
Virtualized Applications: SQL Server 2005, •
Microsoft exchange 2007, QuickBooks, Quicken, Blackberry enterprise Server, Prosystem fx Tax, Prosystem fx engage-ment, Prosystem fx Practice, Multiple versions of QuickBooks and Quicken, multiple tax applications, DnS, DHCP, domain controllers
RESULTS
Provide greater reliability for busi-
ness-critical applications. “We’re
an accounting firm—if we don’t
have access to our applications, our
accountants can’t do their work,”
says Goldman. “It’s reassuring to
know that features like VMware
High Availability, VMware Distribut-
ed resource Scheduler, and VMware
vMotion can work across all of our
Intel-based machines.”
Avoid $10k in storage costs. “The new
Thin Provisioning feature of vSphere
ensures that our virtual machines only
take up as much storage space as they
actually need,” says Goldman. “That
has allowed us to defer a $10,000
SAn purchase for the time being.”
Save tens of thousands of dollars in
server costs. “We estimate $7000
in savings for each Windows 2003
instance deployed as a virtual
machine instead of a physical box,”
says Goldman. “And the power in
Intel’s processors means that we
can keep on adding virtual machines
onto our VMware eSX hypervisors
and still get all the performance we
need out of our applications.”
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