ENABLE ZF TRANSICS’S MONGODB INFRASTRUCTURE UPGRADE AND MIGRATION

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ZF Transics required assistance with Migration and Upgrade of their MongoDB databases as part of their data centre migration project. This included improving their existing monitoring solution by upgrading and configuring high availability.

Industry

Transportation, Information Technology

Location

Ieper, Belgium

Technologies

Ubuntu Linux, MongoDB, Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)

Overview

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ZF Transics realised the need for specialist IT service provider to assist with the data centre migration project due to loss of a team member. ZF Transics partnered with Dataxive to assist with MongoDB migration tasks from legacy data centre to new data centre hosted in private cloud.

The challenge

ZF Transics unfortunately lost a member of their technical team impacting delivery of project and needed immediate assistance with MongoDB upgrade and migration until a suitable replacement was found. ZF Transics engaged with Dataxive to work as an extension to their existing technical team and assist with various MongoDB database migration tasks including upgrade and high availability configuration of their existing monitoring tool - MongoDB Ops Manager.

ZF Transics’s MongoDB database platform was hosted on physical servers built with Ubuntu 16.04 and MongoDB 3.4 Enterprise Edition. MongoDB ReplicaSets and Shards were monitored via Ops Manager version 3.6. The challenge was to devise a strategy to migrate large MongoDB ReplicaSets with version upgrade, upgrade MongoDB Ops Manager from version 3.6 to 4.0 with high availability and assist with MongoDB database sharding strategy and performance related issues.

“Our immediate priorities at ZF Transics are to establish a strategy to migrate large MongoDB ReplicaSets, Ops Manager upgrade with High Availability and performance issues with MongoDB Shards.” - Lieven Masschelein, Technical Lead Data, ZF Group, Transics International BVBA

ZF Transics’s technical team lacked MongoDB expertise and ZF Transics’s Technical Lead Lieven Masschelein had his hands full will other priorities. He recognized the need for database partner with proficiency in MongoDB with experience MongoDB. Dataxive’s expertise in MongoDB was the perfect fit for ZF Transics and we jumped right in!

The solution

Dataxive began conducting Database Inventory followed by Infrastructure, tooling and database configuration assessment to establish migration strategy with improved monitoring infrastructure. We used our expertise, revealing the upgrade strategy for MongoDB ReplicaSets, Shards and Ops Manager Monitoring tool with High Availability configuration.

Dataxive enables MongoDB Migration and Upgrade for ZF Transics

After ruling out potential solutions, Dataxive prepared and demonstrated suitable strategy to carry out MongoDB migration from legacy data centre to new private cloud hosted infrastructure with version upgrade. Dataxive also upgrade Ops Manager database and front end to new version with high availability configuration.

24/7 database monitoring: Dataxive upgraded Ops Manager from version 3.6 to 4.0 with MongoDB ReplicaSet used as monitoring data source. Dataxive also configured Ops Manager in high availability to make monitoring solution more resilient.

Database Maintenance and Availability: Dataxive assisted configuring MongoDB databases as service on Ubuntu servers and also assisted high availability of Ops Manager monitoring.

Database Documentation & Support: Dataxive prepared and provided technical documentation for Ops Manager upgrade and various MongoDB administration activities.

Business outcomes

The business goal for ZF Transics was to unblock data centre migration activities impacted by loss of technical team member. Our database gurus, whilst working as an extension to ZF Transics’s current technical team, diligently developed and tested some unconventional solutions and enabled ZF Transics to continue their migration activities. Dataxive improved relevant monitoring, prepared technical documentation with handover and offered advice allowing ZF Transics to elevate monitoring of MongoDB databases.