The challenge
Ageing legacy infrastructure was throttling nightly backups and could not scale with the business.
Customer story · IT and telecom services · Sweden
Nightly backups ten times faster, on a VMware cluster that could finally grow.
A Swedish IT and telecom services provider replaced ageing legacy storage with an AiRE 3122 as primary storage for a new VMware cluster.
- AiRE IntelligentFiler 3122
- VMware vSphere cluster
- FlexiPay
10×
Faster nightly backups than the legacy solution it replaced
STORViX customer story — WE2U
3×
Compression factor on the production data set
STORViX customer story — WE2U
Up to 60%
Lower monthly cost, hardware and licences on FlexiPay
STORViX customer story — WE2U
The solution
An AiRE 3122 became the primary storage for a new VMware cluster, with automated I/O path management, application profile recognition and data reduction, acquired through FlexiPay.
- AiRE IntelligentFiler 3122
- VMware vSphere cluster
- FlexiPay
The situation
WE2U delivers IT and telecom services to Swedish businesses, which means its own infrastructure is the product. The storage behind its virtualised estate had aged into the constraint: nightly backup windows were stretching, and adding capacity to the legacy platform meant another forklift rather than another shelf.
The requirement was a primary storage platform for a new VMware cluster that would take the backup window back under control, reduce the capacity the estate consumed, and do so on an operating-expense model rather than a capital purchase.
What was deployed
An AiRE IntelligentFiler 3122 was installed as the primary storage for the new VMware cluster. The platform's automated I/O path management and application profile recognition meant the data sets were tuned for the virtual machine workload without manual LUN engineering, and inline data reduction was enabled from the start.
The system was acquired through FlexiPay, STORViX's subscription programme, so the hardware, software and support run as a monthly cost rather than an upfront investment.
What changed
Nightly backups completed ten times faster than on the legacy platform. The production data set compressed by a factor of three, cutting the capacity the cluster consumed, and the monthly cost of the storage estate fell by up to 60 per cent against what WE2U had been paying.
Results
What was measured afterwards
- Nightly backups 10× faster than the previous legacy solution
- 3× compression factor, cutting capacity utilisation
- Up to 60% lower monthly cost
Source: STORViX customer story. Figures are the customer’s own as published by STORViX and have not been independently verified.
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