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Meteocat consolidates and monitors its platform thanks to CAPSiDE

06-02-2012
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Meteocat, servers consolidation

CAPSiDE is involved in the consolidation and optimization of the Meteocat database servers.
To reach this goal, CAPSiDE relies on its own previous audit on monitoring the real usage and load of the applications that exploit these databases.

The Client

  • Meteocat is the Catalonian Meteorological Service, official entity from the Catalonian government of Generalitat de Catalunya.
  • Meets over 10 years of history contributing its experience in the service of the Catalan society.
  • Visit the official website of Meteocat.

The Challenge

  • Servers consolidation and platform monitoring.

Problems

  • Meteocat has multiple PostgreSQL databases separated in various servers, what implies an over-cost on administration.
  • CAPSiDE is asked to carry out a consolidation plan but the current usage of each of the databases is unknown, whether or not it is possible to group them somehow and under what conditions.
  • There was no real monitoring on checks that can give the adequate feedback information for the audit and consolidation.
Example of the variety of maps that Meteocat provides

What CAPSiDE did...

  • CAPSiDE launched a monitoring service to collect performance data, availability information and usage of databases and system resources in order to have reliable metrics.
  • After this, the collected information was used for interpretation and elaboration of a diagnosis of the current state of the platform.
  • Plan for a unification of all the services into a smaller number of physical machines.

Results and benefits for the client

  • A new high availability database cluster
  • A full report for the client which indicates the possibility of consolidating the PostgreSQL servers and under what conditions.
  • All based on the customized monitoring previously introduced and implemented by CAPSiDE.
  • Better awareness of the infrastructure.
  • Ability to go on with the project of consolidation that will entail in the future a substantial saving on systems costs.

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