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A Big Manufacturer of Agricultural Food Products from Russia

Russian Federation

"QSAN solution looks perfect from the point of view of performance,scalability and price to our growing business.We can use our resources more effectively now."

- IT Specialist

Company Biography

One of the leaders in agricultural food market in Russia and CIS supplies its products to all federal and regional retail chains and abroad. Its brands are well known all over Russia and CIS for high quality standards.The company has several manufacturing facilities with the most advanced equipment and innovative technologies.

Manufacturer of Agricultural Food Products from Russia

The Challenge

Growth of business required upgrading of IT infrastructure by adding more capacity to storage and servers and providing higher speed (switch from HDDs to SSDs). Limited budget did not allow buying expansion to the existing Tier 1 storage (legacy model of EMC, ultra-expensive vendor-specific expansion) and costly Fiber Channel switches.

The Solution

After market investigation it was decided to test QSAN storage. After successfull testing the customer made his choice for XCubeSAN 5226D + XCubeDAS 5326D + XCubeDAS 5324D. Using a hybrid system allows to achieve the best price / performance ratio. Critical data is stored on SSDs, less popular data on 10K HDDs and "cold" one is located on large capacity 7.2K HDDs.Auto Tiering provides automatic data distribution helping to achieve optimal performance and lower TCO. The infrastructure was updated with an increase in capacity and disk space at a reasonable price.10 servers work with XS5226D storage in a fault-tolerant mode without using expensive switches. The use of compatible drives made it possible to no longer depend on the pricing policy of the storage vendor. Most of necessary features do not require separate licensing (snapshots, clones).

RU_Agricultural-Products Topology

The Benefits

  • Lower TCO (compatible HDDs and SSDs)

  • AutoTiering -> excellent balance of performance and cost of drives

  • High availability design - two Active-Active controllers

  • High-performance solution with scalability

Recommended Product

XCubeSAN 5200

Recommended Models

XS5226

Recommended Features

  • High-availability
  • Auto-Tiering
  • High-performance solution with scalability