Business challenge
Druckerei Rindt GmbH & Co KG is a traditional sheetfed offset printing company that has existed for over 80 years. Its experience, coupled with state-of-the-art machinery, make it a high-performance and above-average service-oriented printing company. As a technical and creative partner, Druckerei Rindt offers services including consultation, pre-press, printing and book binding.
Druckerei Rindt manages its internal data for compute, and also printing and graphics data from customers. They previously used a single-node Dell ESX server with local datastore and VMware hypervisor. The system presented a single point of failure, had slow performance rates and did not offer enough capacity to accommodate future storage needs. They began searching for a redundant, reliable, cost-effective Dell ESX/VMware cluster system. High capacity and performance were key requirements for the environment refresh.
Solution
Druckerei Rindt was impressed with StorMagic SvSAN’s reliability and cost efficiency in a multi-node hardware storage solution. Running on two Dell R740xD Servers, they chose SvSAN with its performance-enhancing SSD caching features. In their new configuration, approximately ten virtual machines (VMs) reside on SvSAN shared storage per server. Windows Server 2012 R2-2019 are the guest VMs. The SvSAN cluster is managed through a WebGUI and VMware’s vCenter plugin.
Why StorMagic
Druckerei Rindt chose StorMagic SvSAN for several reasons, including:
- High performance: Druckerei Rindt is experiencing a >50 percent improvement in performance rates compared to its previous environment.
- High availability: Druckerei Rindt GmbH has experienced 100 percent uptime since installing SvSAN.
- Cost effective: SvSAN eliminates physical SANs by converging compute and storage into a lightweight commodity x86 server footprint, thereby dramatically lowering costs. StorMagic SvSAN is on average 50 percent less expensive than traditional physical SAN alternatives.
- Added redundancy: Physical SANs must be taken offline to run maintenance operations and routine updates. With SvSAN, downtime is virtually eliminated.
Technical Configuration
Server Configuration (Per Server)
| SvSAN License | SvSAN Unlimited TB Gold |
| Hardware | Two Dell R740xD Servers |
| CPU | Xeon Gold 6134 |
| Memory | 196GB |
| Storage | 9+1 3 TB 7K SAS (30TB), 2x 480 GB SSD as Cache |
| Networking | 10GbE, Broadcom BCM57412 + BCM5720 |
| Hypervisor | VMware vSphere ESXi 6.7.0 10764712 |
| Applications | Windows Server 2012R2, 2016, 2019, MySQL, Active Directory, Fileserver, Acronis File Connect |
| Data Protection | Veeam Backup & Replication |
Simple
Provides a true ‘set and forget’ solution for any environment using centralized deployment and management – whether for thousands of sites or just one.
Cost-Effective
Eliminates physical SANs by converging compute and storage into a lightweight commodity server footprint thereby dramatically lowering costs.
Flexible
Delivers on today’s performance needs leveraging any CPU and storage type whilst avoiding over-provisioning with the confidence of scaling for tomorrow’s demands.
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