NHS Trust Relies on Quantum DXi for Fast, Secure Data Protection

Coventry和Warwickshire Partners亚博棋牌正网hip NHS信任将心理健康服务提供给英国米德兰斯的超过一百万人。其IT系统管理从医生和患者记录到调度，临床数据库以及允许员工和患者进行沟通的基础设施。

基于越来越虚拟化的快速增长关键数据

“The amount of data that we manage is substantial and growing very fast,” explains Stuart Harwood, Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Coventry and Warwickshire IT Collaborative, the organization that provides the Trust’s IT services. “Today, we have a full 10 TB of file storage and 15 TB of email. Most of our infrastructure is now virtualized, and we manage over 300 VMs, with plans to increase that over time. One of our most important challenges is how to backup and protect that data.”

更改备份工具以跟上数据增长

IT团队的信任已经在十年内进化了其数据保护。它开始使用Backup Exec和Tape库，但随着虚拟化的增长，它添加了Veeam软件，并使用经销商主动使用以选择右基于磁盘的备份。

主动推荐量子重复数据删除设备。“我们的量子DXI4700S可靠，易于扩展，具有极好的重复数据删除，他们可以支持我们的备用Exec和Veeam备份作业，”Harwood说。该团队在每个信任的两个数据中心中安装了Quantum Appliance，并将所有备份运行到它们。

Growing Data Overwhelms Existing Solutions

该系统运行良好，但无法跟上数据和VM的增长。“有太多的流量，数据太多 - 我们开始在分配的时间内完成备份时遇到的备份以及恢复时间更长，”Harwood记得。

选择新系统时，团队会查找所有选项。“我们看着现在提供重复数据删除系统的普通磁盘，云和所有其他人。据说，经过全面审查，我们决定仍然存在量子，并搬到公司的更新，更快，更大容量的DXI9000电器，“Harwood说。亚搏官网app登录入口

量子的新设备提高了性能和容量

DXI9000提供了多项进展，使其更加强大。一层固态盘增加了每小时进入和行业领先的36 TB的直接重复数据删除。超高密度12 TB HDDS为完整的PETABYTE提供了从51 TB的非中断缩放，并将最少的任何磁盘备份系统的空间中的大多数数据存储在一起。复制，加密和完整的硬件冗余是标准的。

“We added the new Enterprise DXi9000s, one to each data center,” Harwood explains, “but kept the existing 4700s in place and still use them for the backup jobs being written by Backup Exec. All of the Veeam backups—including emails, all the VMs, and most of our databases— are now written to the DXi9000s.”

Incredibly Fast and Completely Reliable VM Backup

“The Quantum DXi9000s are incredibly fast—they take everything we throw at them in stride. Faster performance means we now get all the backups done within the allowed windows, and we are even able to multitask—performing backup verifications on the DXi9000s while backups are still going on. And VM restores, which could take us a couple of hours before, now happen literally in less than five minutes. The reliability has been amazing—the DXi9000s just keep working—and when we have needed support it has been fast and effective.”

The DXi9000 systems will also support the Trust’s future. “We plan to increase our use of replication between the data centers to give us an additional layer of redundancy,” Harwood said, “and we are planning to complete the circle, as it were, by adding a tape layer to provide long term, removable storage for some of our data. Quantum’s integration of disk and tape with Veeam will let us make that a fully automated process.”