Case Study

Mid-Sussex District Council to deploy a virtualised Citrix Access solution

Centralis has recently worked with Mid-Sussex District Council to deploy a virtualised Citrix Access solution. The project included virtualising Citrix Presentation Server 4.0 with Citrix Secure Gateway and Web Interface on Virtual VMware ESX severs based on HP blades.

Overview

	[Centralis] were our first choice when we wanted to try the virtualisation route.
	Chris Bulley, Systems Support Officer, Mid-Sussex District Council

The project combined Citrix and VMware technologies to create a more resilient solution for the Mid-Sussex District Council.

The Customer

Mid Sussex District Council came into being in 1974. Covering an area of 128 square miles and a population of approximately 126,000, it serves as one of the 7 District and Borough Council’s representing the County of West Sussex. The Council now has 500 employees and a yearly budget of about £10.8 million for the provision of services for residents and businesses.

Virtualising Citrix

The project was designed to increase resilience and improve business continuity provision for the council, by allowing them to move their Citrix environment to new servers seamlessly in the event of any hardware failure.

Working closely with Chris Bulley, Systems Support Officer for the Council, Centralis deployed the complete access solution, including a number of standard office and council line of business applications, such as Microsoft Office, Academy, Caps Uniform, Acrobat, GroupWise and EMS.

	Mid Sussex Council saw an opportunity to combine Citrix and VMware technologies to create a more resilient solution
	Neil Burton, Government Sector Solutions Manager, Centralis

Commenting on the project, Chris Bulley said "We've worked with Centralis on Citrix projects in the past and been very happy with their standard of work and documentation in particular, so they were our first choice when we wanted to try the virtualisation route. Centralis combination of VMware and Citrix qualifications gave us further reassurance that they would be up to the task and the whole virtualisation project was completed on time and to budget. The result for the Council is that we have a reliable, easy to manage, scalable VMWare Citrix Farm, with inbuilt flexibility to help us move to the future."

Neil Burton, Government Sector Solutions Manager for Centralis, said "Mid Sussex Council saw an opportunity to combine Citrix and VMware technologies to create a more resilient solution for the Council. Centralis were very pleased to be able to support the council in making their virtualisation vision a reality."
 

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