HYCU verschafft innovativem Hersteller eine neue Backup-Vision

Business Challenges

Als der leitende Infrastrukturingenieur 2018 zu dem Unternehmen kam, stand er vor einer gewaltigen Herausforderung: Er sollte eine veraltete VMware-Umgebung und Speicherressourcen verschiedener Anbieter durch eine zukunftsfähige Infrastruktur ersetzen, um das schnelle Wachstum des Unternehmens zu unterstützen. Neben der Unternehmenszentrale und dem primären Rechenzentrum in einem Bundesstaat verfügte das Unternehmen über eine Produktionsstätte und ein sekundäres Rechenzentrum/Disaster Recovery (DR) in einem anderen US-Bundesstaat.

Der IT-Direktor hatte sich zum Ziel gesetzt, eine "sechsneunfache" Verfügbarkeit für alle kritischen Systeme und Daten zu erreichen und gleichzeitig die Benutzerfreundlichkeit zu verbessern und die Skalierung für das schnell wachsende Datenvolumen zu gewährleisten.

“In addition, our in-house development team needed the capability to rapidly restore their development environments back to a particular point in time,” the senior infrastructure engineer says. “Achieving these goals just wasn’t possible with our legacy infrastructure.”

Die Verbesserung der Datensicherung und -wiederherstellung war ein entscheidender Erfolgsfaktor, und die bisherige Lösung des Unternehmens war der Aufgabe einfach nicht gewachsen.

Lösung

To achieve its goals, the company’s IT team decided to implement Nutanix for all of the company’s data center applications and storage.

But what about backup?

“The Nutanix sales engineer recommended HYCU due to its tight integration with Nutanix,” the senior infrastructure engineer recalls. “All the features of HYCU, plus the people I worked with at HYCU, made the decision easy.”

The company deployed 16 Nutanix nodes; eight nodes each in the primary and secondary data centers. Soon after, they added a cluster of storage-heavy Nutanix 8155 nodes for use as a dedicated backup and disaster recovery cluster.

Using HYCU, the IT team established protection domains, which take snapshots to the DR cluster.

Critical applications are replicated every minute and all other replications hourly. “I use the HYCU ROBO feature to back up all replicated snapshots from the production clusters and use that for a backup target. Backups are written immediately to our S3 cloud storage,” the senior infrastructure engineer explains.

Vorteile

Radikal verbesserte Fähigkeiten

HYCU provides all the performance and streamlined simplicity advantages of Nutanix. “I was able to take a hodge-podge of platforms and move to a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) and create a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy, with minutely replications offsite. This was not even close to possible before we implemented Nutanix and HYCU,” the senior infrastructure engineer says.

Problemlose Skalierbarkeit

HYCU simplifies the process of scaling to accommodate growth. “We have more than quadrupled our required resources in the past year,” the senior infrastructure engineer notes. “With HYCU, the ability to add new nodes quickly, easily and cost-effectively has been amazing.”

Zeitsparende Einfachheit

“I’ve worked with many other backup vendors and I really appreciate the simplicity that HYCU brings to the table,” the senior infrastructure engineer says, noting as an example HYCU’s high degree of automation. “The fact that you can have a policy that once a VM is created, it’s automatically protected, is really big.”

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