About the Ministry of Health Malaysia
The Ministry of Health Malaysia (Malay: Kementerian Kesihatan Malaysia) is the ministry responsible for Malaysia’s health system, including: healthy behavior, cancer, public health, health management, medical research, health systems research, respiratory medicine, health promotion, healthcare tourism, medical devices, blood collection, leprosy control, clinical research, dental care, health institutions, laboratories, pharmaceuticals and patient safety.
MOH Malaysia’s IT Challenges and Requirements
- When new applications were deployed, the old servers did not have enough resources to handle the workloads. MOH needed to deploy additional servers to meet their application hosting requirements.
- There were 12 sites that needed deployment, and MOH wanted to centralize the management of all 12 sites into one single management console.
- The old server infrastructure design failed to meet the latest reliability standards and lacked high availability (HA) to mitigate single points of failure.
- MOH wanted to have a scalable solution for future storage expansion.
- External storage was required to store backups outside of the production server.
Sangfor’s Solution for MOH Malaysia
The Ministry of Health Malaysia opted for Sangfor HCI (Hyperconverged Infrastructure) to address the above challenges and requirements. Sangfor HCI is a software-defined data center (SDDC) solution that virtualizes the elements of traditional 3-tier data centers - compute, storage, and networking – into a single server. With the deployment of Sangfor HCI, MOH Malaysia enhanced its IT infrastructure and operations in the following ways:
- Sangfor HCI’s unified management platform allows MOH to conveniently monitor and manage the infrastructure of all 12 sites in one single console.
- All 12 sites were built with N+1 redundancy to ensure business continuity should any components fail.
- Supports hot swapping, which enables MOH to scale up its storage without having to shut down or reboot systems.
- Sangfor’s solution can be integrated with external storage to meet MOH’s backup requirements.
- Instant recovery of virtual machines (VM) within three minutes.
