Vinchin Protects Terabytes of Critical Business Data for expleo

We received timely and professional support from Vinchin when we had some issues with the VM quiesce, that has influenced our decision to go with Vinchin Backup & Recovery. After then the test progress goes pretty smoothly and straightforwardly. Currently we have 21 relatively large VMs protected by Vinchin Backup & Recovery and the number constantly grows.

Martin Malosek, Principal Architect

expleo Consulting GmbH

Business Challenge

expleo Consulting GmbH is an Austrian IT service company providing high-value-added electronic data processing services and have long-standing experience in consulting, system administration and virtual server hosting.

expleo excels at specialized, tailor-made SAP hosting, offering virtual server hosting mainly for database related applications, focusing on SAP Netweaver platform. To guarantee excellent uptime and geographically separated back-ups as well as entire clusters, the company has located its powerful data centers in the Czech Republic, the Slovak Republic and Austria. Even in the case of one data center's failure, customer will still be able to continue working using their services. As a result, the company needs reliable and robust backup solution for their SAP hosting servers.

"Our firm boasts a team of top software developers and IT experts, so we built up conventional database backup scenarios by ourselves to protect our SAP servers in the past time. However, with the growth of business volume, the traditional database backup mode continuously increases our manpower and time investment, making us more and more powerless to back up the servers. We need a more efficient way to do backup!" Said Martin Malosek, Principal Architect of expleo.

Vinchin Solution

One of expleo's data center runs SAP hosting servers on an oVirt virtual platform. Therefore, having accurate oVirt VM backups is imperative for preventing data loss and downtime. expleo deployed Vinchin Backup & Recovery as a new alternative to legacy database backups to protect their virtual environment. 

"With the quiesce function of Vinchin Backup & Recovery and virtualizing host we have transactional consistent snapshots of HANA, MaxDB, DB2 and Oracle databases. Such consistent snapshots are fully supported by SAP and therefore very comfortable to use." Said Martin.

The company's best impression about Vinchin was the professional customer support. "We received timely and professional support from Vinchin when we had some issues with the VM quiesce, that has influenced our decision to go with Vinchin Backup & Recovery. After then the test progress goes pretty smoothly and straightforwardly." said Martin, "Currently we have 21 relatively large VMs protected by Vinchin Backup & Recovery and the number constantly grows."

Result

In the first month of deploying Vinchin Backup & Recovery on their production system, expleo backed up more than 80TB of data over Vinchin Backup & Recovery. It keeps protecting those critical businesses running in their data centers. "I have already recommended Vinchin Backup & Recovery to one of our customers. I can imagine, that we do the same more times in the future!" Said Martin.