Data Center Infrastructure Refresh for a
Leading Diagnostics Healthcare Provider
Customer Background
The customer is a market-leading diagnostics and healthcare services provider operating a large network of laboratories and diagnostic centers across India. Their IT infrastructure supports critical healthcare applications, laboratory information systems, and digital patient services that require high availability, performance, and scalability.
To support growing operational demand and modernize their infrastructure, the organization initiated a data center hardware refresh program involving compute, network, and application delivery components.
Problem Statement
The customer needed to replace aging data center infrastructure with modern platforms while ensuring minimal disruption to critical healthcare applications.
Key challenges included:
- Refreshing core infrastructure components including Cisco UCS compute platform, Nexus data center switches, and A10 load balancers
- Ensuring seamless migration with minimal downtime to avoid disruption to healthcare operations
- Planning the deployment and integration of new hardware within the existing environment
- Maintaining high availability during traffic migration and system transition
- Ensuring the new infrastructure was ready for application and data migration
The organization required an experienced partner to plan, deploy, and transition the infrastructure smoothly without impacting business operations.
Solution Provided
Hexatic partnered with the customer to plan and execute the data center infrastructure refresh, ensuring a structured and low-risk deployment.
Key activities performed:
Infrastructure Planning and Design Support
Collaborated with the customer’s IT and infrastructure teams to plan the deployment of the new hardware environment and define the migration approach.
Hardware Deployment (Racking & Stacking)
Conducted detailed reviews of 25 FortiGate firewall configurations across all locations
Security Policy Review
Provided on-site support for:
â—‹ Racking and stacking of new hardware
â—‹ Physical installation of Cisco UCS chassis
â—‹ Deployment of Cisco Nexus switches
â—‹ Installation of A10 load balancers
Cisco UCS Cluster Setup
Configured the Cisco UCS compute environment, including chassis configuration and cluster setup to prepare the platform for production workloads.
Network Integration
Integrated the new compute and networking infrastructure to ensure proper connectivity, redundancy, and high availability.
Load Balancer Parallel Deployment
Deployed the A10 load balancer in parallel with the existing environment and configured application delivery policies.
Traffic Migration Strategy
Gradually shifted application traffic to the new load balancing infrastructure, ensuring minimal downtime and smooth transition.
Infrastructure Handover for Data Migration
Delivered a fully configured and operational infrastructure platform ready for application and data migration by the customer team.
Results
The project successfully delivered a modernized data center infrastructure with minimal operational disruption
Key outcomes included:
- Successful deployment of new Cisco UCS, Nexus, and A10 infrastructure
- Seamless traffic migration with minimal downtime for healthcare applications
- Improved compute performance and scalability
- Enhanced application availability and load balancing capabilities
- Delivery of a fully ready infrastructure platform for data and application migration
The engagement enabled the healthcare organization to modernize its IT infrastructure while maintaining the reliability required for critical diagnostic and healthcare services.