ENERGY
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| Customer Type | Energy Delivery & Constructions Materials Group |
|---|---|
| Customer Sector | Energy |
| Source Storage | Dell Compellent (iSCSI) |
| Target Storage | DELL/EMC Unity FC All-Flash Array |
| Number of Hosts & Clusters | Multiple Multi-node Clusters |
| Host Types | Windows Server |
| Host Applications | MS SQL Clusters |
| Replication Type | Local |
| Number of CMO and model | 2 x CMO8000 |
| Insertion Method | Path Insertion |
CHALLENGES
SOLUTION
RESULTS
• A non-disruptive deployment using block migration
• Limited insertion and migration windows
• Minimum impact on production performance
• Migration solution must migration from FC to iSCSI Source Storage to FC Destination
• CMO8000 physically inserted with zero downtime
• CMO iQoS used to reduce or eliminate any impact to production environment
• Simultaneous migration of both sites can be accomplished using remote migration, with data consolidated on destination storage
• Block migration can be conducted across SANs, from iSCSI to FC storage
• CMO performed flawlessly
• CMO migration was performed with no impact to production
• Project completed ahead of schedule – insertion, migration, and cutover completed by the second weekend
• Customer praised the simplicity of the CMO solution
THE STORY
A US-based energy delivery and construction materials group serving over a million customers was looking to replace its Dell Compellent iSCSI storage array and move to a new Dell Unity fibre channel array as its aging storage was reaching end-of-maintenance and end-of-life status. The company had engaged with a Cirrus Data partner to perform the migration from the old storage to the new storage, and the partner recommended Cirrus Data’s Cirrus Migrate On-Premises (CMO) as the best tool for the migration.
The company was eager to take advantage of the vastly improved performance of the Dell Unity storage, as it had a number of critical SQL databases running on multi-node clusters and were looking to improve the speed of their business analytics processing.
With its current storage reaching EOL, the company was under a time crunch to get all its data migrated and would be cutting over to the new storage during a weekly maintenance window.
