Customer Background
The Customer, (a Tier 1 operator in UAE) had an Telco Cloud FCAPS network which had one lab site, two stagging sites and 10 production sites which needed to be upgraded to latest version of the components involved in the solution.
Challenges
The customer network had not been upgraded from the last 5 years and out dated versions were running, The required upgrades were performed by VaporVM in step wise way to reach the latest versions
Our Solution
Following components were upgraded
- Zabbix upgrade from version 3.0 to 6.0
- ELK from version 6.8 to 7.17 and TBN from 7.17 to 8.6
- Ansible, AWX from 2.9 to 6.x
- Bacula from 7.4 to 13.0 version.
- Red Hat Satellite server deployment.
- Radius, NTP and DNS servers were upgraded as well.
- Gitlab 10.1 to 15.x
- RHEL 7 to RHEL 8 Inplace Upgrade, Physical and Virtual.
- Open Shift Deployment IPI, UPI, Air mapped with private registry.
- OSP and OCP integration with Zabb IX, Bacula and Filebeat.
- Our Red Hat certified team performed all these upgrades in the telco environment providing expertise in all the above-mentioned domains.
Results
VaporVM employed the Assess, Design, Implement, and Manage (“ADIM”) framework to provide a strong project model. The ADIM model builds an experience-based approach that provides technical guidance and helps focus on the project with meaningful relevance to the business and operational efficiency during the co-existence state.