Industry
Food Supply
Software-defined Data Center | Data Protection for VMware
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A leading fresh food supplier distributes fresh food to multiple huge retailers and supermarkets. The company’s demand is driven by consumption and its profitability depends on maintaining a high quality, varied selection of produce and on efficient operations.

The Challenge
The customer needed to modernise their data centres and disaster recovery capability with a complete solution that would simplify managing their VMware environment on-site and in remote offices. As they were growing and developing new products and brands, they wanted assurance that their new solution would ‘future proof’ the business for at least five years.
The approach
As a Dell Technologies Platinum Partner and an authorised VMware partner, Chavans had the specialist skills and technical expertise to provide just what the customer needed and hence, Dell EMC VxRail and Data Domain appliances, with Data Protection Suite for VMware and RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines was recommended.
The Solution
All services migrated to the Dell EMC solution seamlessly, without any interruption in service. The monitoring and management of the environment happen through vCenter. The facility uses its VxRail systems to host their production and DR workloads, running 183 VMs totalling 96TB. Data Protection Suite backs up their VMs daily and Recover Point for Virtual Machines continuously replicates their VMs to their DR site. As the organisation expands, the technology implemented can serve beyond expectations and produce very satisfactory performance results making every penny of investment worth it.
The future
Currently, the customer is planning to deploy VMware proxies to their remote offices to back up their data using Data Protection Suite. Without DD Boost and Data Protection Suite there would be no way we could back up the remote office data over the available bandwidth.
Product categories and services used
Dell Technologies
- Data Protection Suite
- RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines
- PowerProtect DD
- VxRail