Australian School Implements New Projects Quicker and Easier by Virtualizing Servers
St Leonard's College, a leading private school in Australia, wanted to expand the services it offered to students and staff. To avoid the expense of installing more hardware, St Leonard's implemented Windows Server® 2008 Enterprise with Hyper-V™ virtualization technology. The school chose the solution over virtualization products from Novell and VMware because of its ease of implementation and ability to simplify management tasks. In addition, by deploying Windows Server 2008, St Leonard's doubled its server software infrastructure and decreased server deployment times by 50%. St Leonard's is also migrating its PHP-based Internet site from a Linux Apache Web server to Windows Server 2008 to take advantage of IIS 7.0 support for PHP and the MySQL database.
St Leonard's College is a private school in Melbourne, Australia, with 1,700 students from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Founded in 1897, it has two campuses and 300 employees.
Business Situation
St Leonard's College needed to undertake new IT projects. However, the school was concerned that installing more hardware would be time-consuming and costly.
Solution
St Leonard's College implemented Windows Server® 2008 with Hyper-V™ virtualization technology. The school also uses Microsoft® System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008.
Benefit
Eases implementation
Enhances customer service
Simplifies management
Provides foundation for the future
Software
Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Windows Vista Enterprise
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
Windows Server 2008
Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services
Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0
Quote
"We have not had a single instance of Hyper-V failing. It's so easy to manage that we rarely need to touch it."
James Bannan, Network Manager, St Leonard's College
