HYCU donne à un fabricant innovant une nouvelle vision de la sauvegarde

Business Challenges

Lorsque l'ingénieur infrastructure senior a rejoint l'entreprise en 2018, il a été confronté à un défi de taille : remplacer un environnement VMware vieillissant et des ressources de stockage provenant de plusieurs fournisseurs par une infrastructure prête pour l'avenir afin de soutenir la croissance rapide de l'entreprise. En plus de son siège social et de son centre de données principal situés dans un État, l'entreprise disposait d'un site de production et d'un centre de données secondaire/de reprise après sinistre (DR) dans un autre État américain.

Le directeur informatique s'était fixé pour objectif d'atteindre une disponibilité de "six neuf" pour tous les systèmes et données critiques, tout en améliorant l'expérience des utilisateurs et en s'adaptant à l'augmentation rapide du volume de données.

“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.”

L'amélioration de la sauvegarde et de la restauration était un facteur de réussite essentiel et la solution précédente de l'entreprise n'était tout simplement pas à la hauteur de la tâche.

Solution

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.

Avantages

Des capacités radicalement améliorées

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.

Évolutivité sans problème

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.”

Simplicité et gain de temps

“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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A propos du client

For this manufacturer of innovative building products, the company’s advanced technology
was used to make commercial and industrial workplaces more environmentally optimized.

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