In early 2014, we carried out a complete virtualization project (servers and data storage) for the infrastructure of one of our customers, the Hirondelle Foundation.
Fondation Hirondelle is a Swiss NGO bringing together journalists and professionals active in humanitarian actions.
It supports general-interest, independent reporting in conflict, war and post-conflict zones.
Infologo supported this NGO in the implementation of this project.
The primary objective was to provide the Foundation with a highly available, scalable and flexible environment, with a view to implementing an ERP project on an international scale.
To achieve this, Infologo relied on a DELL infrastructure organized as a VMware cluster, interconnected with a Datacore virtual storage network.
As presented in this article, DataCore is a vSAN (Virtual SAN) solution that links storage bays from different manufacturers, offering advanced features for managing disk space and the type of disks used (SSD, SAS, SATA, etc.).
Here’s a diagram of how our solution was implemented on the customer’s premises:
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The strengths of the solution :
- Redundancy at all levels (Server, Storage, Switching)
- Performance (10Gbps iSCSI network, Datacore memory cache, high-speed disks)
- High availability
- Simplified, transparent maintenance operations for users
- Scalability to a Disaster Recovery site scenario
- Synchronous mirroring of 2 Datacore storage nodes
- Uninterrupted data mobility
- Auto-Tiering
- Minimized RPO and RTO
