government
case study 3
How Mentat™ helped an undisclosed government agency migrate over 800 Virtual Machines (VMs) from their old data center with failing end-of-life hardware, zero automation, and a looming deadline to vacate the data center, to a brand new, automated and orchestrated data center with extremely stringent security compliance requirements.
Challenges
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Zero time to refactor apps
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Looming deadline to vacate data center
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Ailing hardware that was past end-of-life
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Applications that allowed for little downtime
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Zero automation in previous environment
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No replication capabilities in place prior to migration
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Previous environment had overly complex security that far surpassed requirements
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Difficult security compliances in new environment (CCMC, NIST, ITAR, ISO)
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Zero data corruption
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Minimal application downtime
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Successfully decommissioned applications that were no longer needed
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All applications were tested successfully and verified by application owners
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Mentat was able to leverage all native or previously owned tools without acquiring new ones
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Correctly migrated incorrectly categorized applications to appropriate enclaves to meet compliance
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Target data center was configured to ensure compliance using configuration as code practices
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All virtual machines inherited a modern tagging strategy using automation through the migration process
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Solutions
Mentat™ designed, developed, deployed, & managed the largest Azure Government deployment that met CJIS compliance requirements.
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Connected multiple zero-trust VNETs to 100GB ExpressRoute pipe, with micro-segmentation between all subnets to control east/west traffic.
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Check Point firewalls were deployed into Azure Scale Sets to control north/south traffic.
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To handle automation in the Azure cloud, Mentat™ designed & implemented Jenkins for orchestration, & Terraform and PowerShell to provision & configure services.
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Technologies
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VMware vSphere (vCenter and ESXi)
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VMware vRep and SRM
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Commvault
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Jenkins
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PowerCLI
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Ansible
