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Case study
Geberit accelerates data
analysis with SAP HANA
The company chose a TDI storage solution
based on HP 3PAR StoreServ
Industry
Sanitary products
Objective
A highly available, exible and easy to administer
storage solution for SAP HANA and VMware
Approach
Comparison of various tailored data centre
integration solutions on the market
IT matters
• Simple solution management
• Simple and exible expandability under
high performance requirements
• No training necessary for Geberit’s IT
personnel due to the knowledge transfer by
HP and MCL during the implementation
• Option to carry out backups and restores
that run in the background at any time
without causing a drop in performance
• A highly exible environment due to
HP 3PAR StoreServ systems providing both
the SAP HANA, VMware and leserver data
Business matters
• Investment protection as the HP 3PAR
StoreServ systems integrate seamlessly
into the existing IT infrastructure
• Substantially lower life cycle costs in
comparison to an appliance solution
• Fast availability of SAP HANA for the business
as HP and MCL were able to carry out a quick
and stringent implementation of the storage
solution in a very short period of time
• High and very stable availability of all SAP
applications by mirroring the storage solution
“Our decision to go with the HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400
Storage solution was mainly based on its simple
management processes and technical functions, such as
controller backup and automatic, transparent failover.
All of the comparable solutions on the market were much
more complex and would therefore require greater
expenditure. Having a buer for future performance
requirements was also very important.”
– Thomas Vetter, head of IT infrastructure/CTO, Geberit Verwaltungs GmbH
Focussing on exibility and cost savings
When converting its Oracle databases to SAP HANA, the
Swiss manufacturer of sanitary products, Geberit, decided
against an appliance storage solution. To increase exibility
for SAP and VMware and to decrease costs in the long term,
the company chose a tailored data integration (TDI) solution,
using two HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage systems.