Westmoreland IU Realizes Dramatic Improvements in Data Efficiency and Data Protection with SimpliVity OmniCube
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公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- SimpliVity OmniCube
技术栈
- Microsoft Exchange Server
- MySQL with Moodle
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 基础设施即服务 (IaaS) - 云计算
适用行业
- 教育
适用功能
- 商业运营
服务
- 云规划/设计/实施服务
关于客户
Westmoreland Intermediate Unit is one of 29 intermediate units in Pennsylvania created to provide instructional and operational services to school districts, charter schools, and over 2400 non-public and private schools. Westmoreland IU in particular serves seventeen school districts and three county Career and Technology Centers. 305 students are enrolled in their online learning program and total course enrollments being 1300. The WIU runs a massive 2TB Microsoft Exchange database server as well as a SQL and MySQL database management system and other hosted learning management systems. However, as their VMs started growing bigger and bigger, they had to compromise the frequency and retention of their backups in an effort to conserve limited storage—and that concession was unacceptable in an educational service agency.
挑战
Westmoreland Intermediate Unit (WIU), a regional educational service agency in Pennsylvania, was faced with a vexing problem. Their legacy IT environment could no longer handle their growing VMs, and were quickly running out of capacity for optimal operations and data protection. The WIU had two Promise Arrays, totaling 4TB of storage, attached to two Intel Modular Server chassis, each containing 14 internal disks with 6TB of internal storage. Their entire environment had about 12TB worth of storage, but the WIU quickly discovered that it was no longer sufficient. The decreasing capacity was growing to be more than an initial annoyance and had the predicted consequence of forcing them to reduce the number of backups in order to conserve their lessening storage capacity. Their key mission-critical application, a 2TB Microsoft Exchange server supplying over 3000 mailboxes to users in the numerous school districts, were using Veeam backups to send data to the TwinStrata CloudArray with Amazon S3. While the WIU was backing up their applications daily with five restore points, some larger VMs, such as Exchange, could undergo only one restore point due to capacity restraints. The WIU also faced additional frustrations with extremely long backup times of up to eight hours using Veeam, and then only being able to retain those backups for a week. When backing up to cloud, the process took even longer, usually upwards of 48 hours to migrate everything.
解决方案
The WIU looked for a solution that could be easily managed, provide data protection and disaster recovery, and increase their capacity requirements. They were initially in the market for a data storage solution, and evaluated numerous SAN storage solutions, but primarily focused on Nimble Storage for their capacity requirements. However, they were approached by one of SimpliVity’s resellers, Computer Connections, Inc., who presented the OmniCube. “We did a cost analysis and it turned out that for approximately the same amount we would have been investing in just a storage solution, we could eliminate and consolidate all of our data center into two OmniCubes,” said Vaughan. “The OmniCubes are an all-in-one solution.” Installation and deployment of the OmniCubes was simple and fast. Not only were they able to migrate all 30 VMs with approximately 12TB of data to the OmniCubes within a day and a half, they did so without any end-users noticing any down time in performance.
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