Study

Company
VAZSYSTEM is a 100 percent subsidiary of AvtoVAZ, the largest Russian automotive manufacturer,
which is known worldwide for its brand name Lada*. VAZSYSTEM provides IT and IT integration
services to other companies in the AvtoVAZ group. VAZSYSTEM depends on those IT systems for
business planning and for preparing mandatory reports to strict deadlines, such as for taxation
purposes.
Challenge
VAZSYSTEM hosts the 1C* enterprise resource planning (ERP) system for some of its clients in a
virtualized server environment. Tasks include massive database calculations and report preparation,
based on between 15 and 100GB of accounting, stock, or technological data. These tasks can
take up to six hours to complete and slow down other current tasks.
Solution
VAZSYSTEM was already using virtualized servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor E7 family
and ran a proof of concept to test the improvement with the Intel Xeon processor E7 v2 family
using CentOS Linux. “For us, one of the most important features of the new Intel Xeon processor
is its massive support for virtualization with Intel® Virtualization Technology
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,” said Vladimir
Bulov, CEO of VAZSYSTEM. “It enables us to optimize our operational environment to achieve
maximum performance.”
Benefits
For the most critical and time-consuming operations, servers based on the Intel Xeon processor
E7 v2 family delivered 30 percent faster performance
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in the pilot compared to the previous-
generation server, enabling the company to deliver reports up to three hours faster than before
according to VAZSYSTEM’s own research. The new server offers up to 6TB of RAM with a four-
socket configuration, enabling VAZSYSTEM to place multiple virtual machines on a single physical
server. “We can more effectively use data center space and be more energy efficient while meeting
our SLAs,” said Bulov.
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“The best thing about the new
generation of Intel® Xeon®
processors is their price/per-
formance ratio, which exceeds
that of the previous generation.
The advanced reliability, avail-
ability and serviceability features
(Intel® Run Sure Technology)
will also enable us to meet our
SLA commitments more easily.”
Vladimir Bulov,
CEO, VAZSYSTEM
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Success Brief
Intel® Xeon® Processor E7 v2 Family
Performance
Virtualization
Driving improvements
VAZSYSTEM increases server performance by 30 percent for critical reports with Intel® Xeon® processors E7
v2 family