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Case study | Geberit Verwaltungs GmbH
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Advantages
Greater exibility, lower costs
The rst step was to install two HP 3PAR
StoreServ 7400 systems in Pfullendorf.
In the coming year, the data centre in
Rapperswil-Jona will also be tted with two
HP 3PAR StoreServ systems so that the
company can benet from asynchronous
mirroring between the two sites.
Replication and transparent failover are two of
the basic software functionalities at the heart
of Geberit’s HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 systems:
“If one data centre goes down, the second
data centre at the site can completely assume
all of its functions in a very short amount
of time,” says Vetter. “With our VMware
environment, this was absolutely essential.”
“ The teamwork on this project
was excellent. The project
coordination was fantastic
and the implementation went
faster than expected, even
though we had already had
a loose schedule at the
planning stage. This was
only possible due to good
coordination and professional
collaboration between all of
the parties involved.”
– Thomas Vetter, head of IT infrastructure/CTO,
Geberit Verwaltungs GmbH
The manufacturer also uses other software
functions: The reporting function, for
example, which provides transparency in
case of an emergency and for performance
planning. The thin technologies improve the
cost-eectiveness of the storage system.
This functionality provides opportunities
for cost savings when expanding the
storage capacities: When a new volume
is added, storage resources are assigned,
but only used by the storage system when
it is actually requested by the host. With
the tiering function, Geberit has the option
to meet performance requirements with
ecient storage types of dierent speeds
in the future: The HP 3PAR StoreServ
7400 decides automatically to which
storage type the data should be written.
“With the HP 3PAR StoreServ system,
we have much greater exibility as compared
to an appliance solution. And the costs
are also much lower,” states Vetter.
“The migration was easy and ran smoothly.
The solution is also very performant and
stable. Before going live, all of the functions
were tested intensively and approved during
the project phase. And we could see the
benets even then - we could hardly believe
it. The management of the HP 3PAR StoreServ
system is also incredibly simple. We can
now carry out backups and restores that
run in the background at any time,
without seeing any drops in performance.
The multi-controller architecture gives us high
availability and optimum performance for our
business-critical SAP HANA environment.”
As a result, the success of this project has
paved the way for Geberit to migrate all
of its SAP instances – over 20 – to SAP
HANA within the next three years.
Learn more at
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Customer solution
at a glance
Application
SAP ERP 6.0
Lotus Notes
Hardware
• HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 Storage system
Software
• SAP HANA
• VMware vSphere
• HP 3PAR Reporting Software Suite
• HP 3PAR Application Software
Suite for VMware
• HP 3PAR Replication Suite
• HP 3PAR Data Optimization Suite
• HP 3PAR Service Processor Software
• HP 3PAR Thin Provisioning Software
HP services
• Installation
• Consulting
• HP Support Plus 24
About MCL
MCL Computer & Zubehör GmbH is based in
Böblingen and has seven sites and over
100 employees across Germany. As an
HP Platinum Partner, MCL provides system
solutions based on HP server, storage and
network products, as well as services in the
elds of virtualisation, consolidation, storage
management and system monitoring.
As well as its solutions business, MCL is
the largest HP Renew partner in the EMEA,
which means it can provide optimum
purchasing conditions and excellent product
availability with its own storage site.
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