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 DMS and model | 2x DMS8000 |
| 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
• DMS 8000 physically inserted with zero downtime
• DMS 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
• DMS performed flawlessly
• DMS 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 DMS 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 DMS 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.
