Viasit: Ensured Serenity with a scalable Open-E JovianDSS-based Solution

Viasit, a solution provider in the office furniture sector, is exclusively developing and manufacturing in Neunkirchen, Germany. However, its portfolio includes realizations all over the world. The environmental management of Viasit is certified according to EMAS, and it is a founding member of the German Design Council.

To face the constant growth in the production process and increased demand, Viasit required a reliable data storage solution to store the data safely. Additionally, there were several requirements to be followed:

– Continuous data accessibility (High Availability),
– Advanced data protection,
– Scalable data storage solution for the potential further expansions,
– Compatibility and certification with the VMware environment,
– Affordable price-performance ratio.

Additionally, the data had to be easily accessible for all the employees in order to simplify the company’s workload without an expanded IT department with data storage specialists. The goal of Viasit was to focus on the core business of manufacturing.

To maintain all the challenges faced, Viasit has chosen EUROstor, a German hardware and storage solutions provider, based on their long-term experience with data storage implementations in the data storage market. In order to respond to the request for a flexible, scalable, and affordable solution, EUROstor has recommended Open-E JovianDSS to be used as the data storage software.
The chosen solution consisted of two pools configured in a Single storage Shared High Availability cluster.
The two Open-E JovianDSS nodes were externally connected to the JBOD via Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) protocols. As one of the requirements of Viasit was the possibility to expand the system depending on the workload’s growth, the solution implemented worked on the basis of a 2-way mirror redundancy level, consisting of a total of eight disk groups for starters. In the case of a capacity extension, the configuration allows the user to simply add up to 2 more disk groups, or simply to add an extra JBOD.
The system’s capacity was suited to the customer’s requirements. Considering the requested capacity of 12 TB of usable storage, the actual capacity is composed of 13,85 TB divided into two pools to provide the needed capacity. An additional benefit of the implementation was the proper Load Balancing thanks to the Active-Active cluster configuration, which ensures an increased speed of both performance and data availability.

Thomas Weber, Head of IT at Viasit:

 

”Thanks to the proper configuration and implementation of the system, as well as the assurance that we will receive assistance in case of any difficulties, we sleep much better now. The software has ensured easy maintenance without unplanned downtimes, with simple accessibility to the data stored. In the event of any configuration issue, we always got very fast and professional support from both EUROstor and Open-E”