Tier-1 Systems Integration & Certified HCI Architecture

Enterprise Data Centres, High-Density HCI & Modernization

Consolidating legacy complexity into agile, software-defined computing engines. We design and deploy high-density compute arrays, Nutanix and VMware vSAN HCI clusters, and all-flash NVMe fabrics engineered for 99.999% availability and low PUE efficiency.

99.999% SLA
Active-active multi-datacenter clustering and zero downtime
58% Lower PUE
Thermal airflow optimization and rear-door liquid cooling
4.2 : 1 Ratio
Hardware-accelerated inline deduplication and compression
< 15 Min RTO
Automated cross-region disaster recovery and instant failover
Enterprise Capabilities

End-to-End Modern Compute & Facility Architecture

From bare-metal rack servers to hyper-converged software-defined clouds, Iris Waves eliminates silos between storage, compute, and networking to unlock unprecedented agility.

High-Density Compute Silicon

Enterprise Compute Infrastructure

High-throughput rack and blade server architectures powered by Dell PowerEdge, Cisco UCS, and Lenovo ThinkSystem. Optimized for virtualized multi-tenant databases and low-latency microservices.

Dual & Quad-socket 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable and AMD EPYC 9004 CPUs
PCIe Gen 5 NVMe flash storage integration with sub-millisecond I/O
Centralized hardware telemetry via Dell iDRAC9 and Cisco Intersight
Fault-tolerant redundant hot-swappable platinum/titanium power supplies
Dell PowerEdge R760 Cisco UCS X-Series PCIe Gen 5 NVMe Lenovo ThinkSystem
Software-Defined Cloud Fabric

Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI)

Eliminate silos between storage, compute, and networking. Turnkey Nutanix Cloud Platform and VMware vSAN clusters featuring automated node scaling and single-pane-of-glass orchestration.

Turnkey Nutanix AHV & VMware vSAN Express Storage Architecture (ESA)
Non-disruptive one-click firmware upgrades with zero downtime
Inline deduplication and compression delivering up to 4.2:1 data reduction
Automated self-healing replication across multi-site stretched clusters
Nutanix Cloud Platform VMware vSAN ESA Nutanix AHV Dell VxRail
Parallel Flash Storage

All-Flash NVMe Storage Fabrics

Accelerate mission-critical relational databases, transaction logs, and analytical workloads with Pure Storage FlashArray and Dell PowerStore end-to-end NVMe-oF arrays.

Pure Storage DirectFlash Architecture with 100% active-active controllers
NVMe-oF (NVMe over Fabrics) via 32G Fibre Channel and 100G RoCEv2
Sub-250 microsecond latencies under sustained enterprise I/O peaks
Zero-RPO synchronous replication and instant snapshot snapshot recovery
Pure FlashArray//X Dell PowerStore 3200T NVMe-oF Synchronous Mirroring
High-Speed Switching Fabric

Spine-Leaf Lossless Networking

Low-latency, non-blocking network switching architectures from Cisco Nexus and Arista. Engineered for EVPN-VXLAN virtualization, East-West throughput, and zero packet drop.

Cisco Nexus 9000 & Arista 7050X 100G/400G spine-leaf topologies
EVPN-VXLAN network overlays with multi-tenant segment isolation
Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) policy automation
Lossless RoCEv2 with Priority Flow Control (PFC) and ECN
Cisco Nexus 9300 EVPN-VXLAN Arista 7050X3 Cisco ACI
Green Compute & Thermal Control

Datacenter Facility Modernization

Migrate inefficient server sprawl into low-PUE facilities. We engineer hot/cold aisle containment, intelligent 3-phase PDU distribution, structured fiber trunks, and rear-door liquid cooling.

Consolidation of 10:1 server rack footprints into high-density HCI
Hot/Cold aisle containment cutting cooling power draw by up to 35%
Structured MPO optical trunk cabling with certified Fluke OTDR testing
Vertiv Liebert in-row precision cooling & direct liquid heat exchangers
PUE Optimization Vertiv Liebert CRV Structured MPO Trunk Hot-Aisle Containment
Managed Infrastructure & NOC

24/7 Managed NOC & Level-3 SLA

Continuous health monitoring, automated predictive hardware replacement, and pan-India on-site response backed by direct OEM service tier escalations.

24/7 automated telemetry monitoring for power, thermals, and ECC errors
Guaranteed 4-hour on-site RMA hardware replacement across major metros
Non-disruptive quarterly rolling firmware & microcode patch automation
Semi-annual non-disruptive disaster recovery failover drill execution
4-Hour Onsite RMA 24/7 Enterprise NOC Tier-1 OEM Escalation Proactive Telemetry
Architectural Blueprint

Iris Waves 4-Tier Modern Datacenter Reference Stack

A battle-tested reference architecture engineered to eliminate vendor lock-in, consolidate physical footprints, and deliver sub-millisecond database throughput.

Tier 04 Workload Orchestration & Virtualization

Enterprise hypervisor clusters, multi-tenant container platforms, and database workloads orchestrated through single-pane cloud management consoles.

Nutanix AHV VMware vSphere 8 Red Hat OpenShift Oracle RAC Microsoft SQL HA
Tier 03 Software-Defined Storage & Data Fabric

Clustered distributed storage fabrics delivering sub-250ยตs latency, inline deduplication, automated tiering, and active-active cross-site synchronous mirroring.

Nutanix Distributed Storage VMware vSAN ESA Pure DirectFlash Dell PowerStore NVMe-oF (RoCEv2)
Tier 02 High-Speed Spine-Leaf Interconnect

100G/400G non-blocking spine-leaf switching fabric with EVPN-VXLAN network overlays, zero packet drops, and programmatic application policy automation.

Cisco Nexus 9300 Arista 7050X3 EVPN-VXLAN Cisco ACI Lossless RoCEv2
Tier 01 Physical Bare-Metal Compute & Facilities

Dual-socket enterprise rack nodes with redundant 3-phase power distribution, hot/cold aisle containment, and Vertiv Liebert precision thermal management.

Dell PowerEdge R760 Cisco UCS X-Series Lenovo ThinkSystem Vertiv In-Row Cooling APC Smart-UPS 3-Phase
Enterprise Hardware Matrix

Certified OEM Infrastructure Bill of Materials (BOM)

Production-certified server, interconnect, and storage platforms deployed and supported by Iris Waves engineers across India.

Domain Certified OEM Architecture Technical Specifications Target Enterprise Workload
HCI Compute Dell Technologies PowerEdge R760 (or VxRail)
2U Enterprise Rack Node
  • Dual 5th Gen Intel Xeon Scalable (up to 128 cores)
  • Up to 8TB DDR5 5600MT/s ECC Memory
  • 24x NVMe Gen 5 U.2/EDSFF enterprise SSDs
  • Dual 100GbE OCP 3.0 network interfaces
High-density enterprise virtualization, core banking database arrays, and Nutanix/VMware vSAN software-defined storage.
Modular Compute Cisco Systems Cisco UCS X-Series Modular
Hybrid Modular Blade/Rack System
  • Cisco Intersight cloud-managed fabric orchestration
  • Dual Intel Xeon or AMD EPYC blade compute nodes
  • UCS X-Fabric interconnect for future GPU integration
  • Redundant 100G unified fabric modules
Enterprise-wide multi-workload consolidation requiring unified networking, compute, and cloud management under one chassis.
All-Flash Array Pure Storage FlashArray//X70 R4
DirectFlash NVMe All-Flash SAN
  • Up to 3.3 PB effective capacity with 5:1 reduction
  • Sub-250 microsecond read/write latency
  • Dual active-active controllers with NVMe-oF
  • ActiveCluster synchronous multi-site mirroring
High-frequency transaction databases (Oracle RAC, SAP HANA) and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) without storage bottlenecks.
Spine-Leaf Fabric Cisco Networking Nexus 9336C-FX2
100G/400G Spine-Leaf Switch
  • 36 ports of 40/100-Gbps QSFP28 wire-rate throughput
  • 7.2 Tb/s non-blocking aggregate bandwidth
  • Hardware support for VXLAN EVPN & Cisco ACI
  • Sub-microsecond port-to-port latency
Lossless East-West datacenter interconnect connecting HCI clusters, storage fabrics, and external hybrid cloud gateways.
Thermal Facilities Vertiv Liebert CRV & SmartAisle
In-Row Precision Cooling & Containment
  • Close-coupled cooling delivering up to 35kW per rack
  • Variable speed EC fans and digital scroll compressor
  • Intelligent dew-point and supply air modulation
  • Integrated hot-aisle containment system
Facility modernization in brownfield or greenfield datacenters reducing facility PUE from 2.1 down to below 1.25.
Implementation Methodology

Predictable Datacenter Migration in 6-8 Weeks

Iris Waves utilizes a zero-downtime cutover methodology that eliminates risk, preserves transaction state, and provides continuous Level-3 rollback protection.

01
Weeks 1 - 2

Telemetry Discovery & Workload Profiling

Our architects deploy lightweight telemetry probes across your existing physical servers to measure IOPS peaks, RAM utilization, and network dependency topologies.

Deliverables: IOPS & Core Sizing Dossier, Server Consolidation Plan, PUE Energy Audit.
02
Weeks 3 - 4

Architecture Blueprint & Staging Validation

Design the spine-leaf network topology, pre-stage the HCI nodes in our secure lab, configure hypervisors, and validate cross-site replication bandwidth.

Deliverables: HLD/LLD Blueprint, Factory Staged Nodes, Replication Pre-Sync Telemetry.
03
Weeks 5 - 6

Bare-Metal Racking & Optical Certification

Physical rack integration at your datacenter facility, structured MPO fiber cabling, PDU balancing, thermal containment setup, and 72-hour burn-in stress testing.

Deliverables: Fluke OTDR Optical Certification, Thermal Baseline Report, Burn-In Log.
04
Weeks 7+

Live Zero-Loss Cutover & 24/7 Day-2 NOC

Executed in planned off-peak windows using block-level hypervisor synchronization with zero downtime. Handover to Iris Waves 24/7 Enterprise NOC with 4-hour SLA.

Deliverables: Production Handover Dossier, 24/7 NOC Telemetry, 4-Hour Onsite Level-3 SLA.
Proven Production Deployments

Battle-Tested Across Enterprise Workloads

Discover how premier Indian banks, manufacturing leaders, and public institutions modernize their core computing infrastructure with Iris Waves.

Commercial Banking & BFSI

Core Banking Latency Slashed by 42% on Nutanix HCI

Consolidated 180+ fragmented server systems across an aging datacenter into a high-density 12-node Nutanix hyper-converged cluster with multi-region active-active database replication.

42%
Transaction Latency Drop
15 Min
Automated DR Failover
Precision Manufacturing

High-Availability ERP & Industrial IoT Consolidation

Deployed Dell PowerEdge and VMware vSAN all-flash nodes across 14 manufacturing plants in India, unifying localized shop-floor telemetry and SAP ERP instances with zero unpredicted downtime.

14 Plants
Standardized Architecture
99.999%
Sustained Plant Uptime
Healthcare Networks

All-Flash PACS Storage & Sub-Second Scan Ingestion

Migrated a multi-hospital radiology network to Pure Storage FlashArray//X with NVMe-oF, cutting MRI/CT image retrieval latency from 45 seconds down to under 4 seconds for remote specialists.

320%
Faster Image Retrieval
3.8 : 1
PACS Deduplication
Government & Public Sector

State Datacenter Modernization & PUE Reduction

Re-architected a state civil registry computing facility, replacing 12 racks of legacy blade servers with 2 high-density modular racks backed by Vertiv in-row precision cooling.

58%
Datacenter Power Cut
10 : 1
Rack Space Consolidation
Strategic Economics

Legacy 3-Tier Architecture vs. Iris Waves Modern HCI

How hyper-converged consolidation cuts datacenter power, cooling, and operational complexity by up to 58%.

Evaluation Metric Traditional 3-Tier Architecture (SAN + Blades) Iris Waves Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
Physical Rack Footprint Requires 8 - 14 full datacenter racks for separate compute, FC SAN switches, and disk arrays. Consolidated into 1 - 2 high-density racks (up to 85% space reclamation).
Power & Cooling Draw (PUE) High power dissipation requiring expensive raised-floor precision air handling (PUE 1.8 - 2.2). 58% reduction in power draw with close-coupled in-row cooling (PUE < 1.25).
Storage Deduplication & NVMe Fragmented storage silos with limited cross-chassis deduplication and costly SAN fiber switches. Inline global deduplication & compression yielding 4.2:1 data reduction on NVMe.
Disaster Recovery & RTO Manual script execution and complex LUN mapping taking 4 to 8 hours to restore services. Fully automated one-click cross-site failover with RTO under 15 minutes.
3-Year OpEx & Maintenance Multiple vendor maintenance contracts (SAN, fabric, servers) with high administrative overhead. Single unified cluster lifecycle with 4-hour Level-3 SLA across India.
Architectural Decision Guide

Frequently Asked Questions by CIOs & Technical Architects

Direct answers to core questions regarding workload migration, Broadcom VMware licensing, PUE reduction, and disaster recovery.

How does Iris Waves guarantee zero data loss during a live datacenter cutover?

We use non-disruptive, block-level asynchronous and synchronous replication fabrics (Nutanix Move, VMware HCX, or Pure Storage ActiveCluster). The target cluster synchronizes database volumes continuously in the background. When transaction volume reaches an off-peak maintenance window, a final delta sync takes less than 60 seconds, followed by automated DNS repointing with zero data loss.

How are you helping clients navigate the Broadcom VMware licensing shift?

As premier certified partners of both VMware by Broadcom and Nutanix, we conduct vendor-neutral architectural licensing audits. For clients seeking hypervisor diversification, we engineer seamless migrations to Nutanix AHV or Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, preserving full VM network topologies while reducing recurring licensing overhead by 30% - 45%.

Can we deploy high-density compute without overhauling our datacenter cooling?

Yes. By utilizing close-coupled in-row cooling units (like the Vertiv Liebert CRV) and modular rear-door heat exchangers (RDHx), we can cool racks drawing up to 35kW per enclosure using existing chilled-water or direct expansion infrastructure, avoiding expensive raised-floor facility reconstruction.

What is your SLA support model for mission-critical hardware failures?

Iris Waves provides 24/7 Level-3 engineering coverage backed directly by OEM partner master contracts. Our Enterprise NOC continuously ingests iDRAC and Intersight telemetry. If a memory module, disk, or power supply shows pre-failure metrics, our engineers execute proactive 4-hour on-site replacement across 100+ cities in India.

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