"BSH Household Appliances" completes upgrade of DWH

BSH company Home appliances upgraded corporate DWH the solution of Netapp of FAS, the press service of vendor reported on August 28, 2013.

Project History

At the end of 2009 IT department of BSH company Home appliances held testing of the plan of disaster recovery during which the unavailability of the available backup system to processing of modern amounts of data and quantity of the recovered systems came to light. The situation was aggravated by the shortage of the new equipment and the outdated park of servers.

Solution of the project

The Russian engineers together with the German colleagues considered two options of possible optimization. The first meant use of standard technologies and solutions for data backup and increase in server capacities. Its implementation would mean increase in the existing park approximately by 2.5 times, creation of the additional server room and growth of expenses on support and operation. The second option, on the contrary, assumed reduction of number of physical servers almost for 79% due to virtualization of infrastructure. For BSH concern this quite new solution tested so far only in Germany, Poland and Spain.

It required special training of IT specialists, but allowed to reduce investments almost by 70% in comparison with the first option. Owing to obvious benefit made the decision - to stop on it.

Project Progress

The park from 15 old servers was replaced with three servers integrated with two storage systems of Netapp FAS2040 on which file servers and virtual machines are placed. Solutions of Netapp are selected as give all necessary technical capabilities at optimal budget investments.

Project Results

• Use of technologies of effective data storage (including deduplications of productive data), the company reduced the needs for disk space and lowered purchase costs of disks.

• The quantity of the primary physical servers in BSH Home appliances in Moscow decreased to three, two of three conditioners in the main server are switched-off.

• Energy consumption of the server hardware and cooling system decreased more than by 70% that, in addition to monetary economy about 1 million rubles, are comparable to reduction of emissions in the atmosphere of 262 tons of a carbon dioxide gas.

"Solutions of Netapp formed the basis of the updated IT infrastructure of the company thanks to their high performance and the developed functionality — Alexander Gerasev, the Head of Department of IT of BSH Home appliances noted. — An opportunity to easily scale it in combination with the reasonable level of investments which showed this project is very important for us. More effective distribution of energy resources became its additional result that will help to reach a bigger economy in the future and answers the concept of Green IT which the concern supports and actively implements at all offices".