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SUCCESS STORY
Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG, a leading manufacturer of flow meters, uses Veeam Backup & Replication v5 Enterprise Edition “Veeam Backup & Replication v5 is intuitive and easy to use. It makes implementing and creating new backup jobs as easy as apple pie. Administrators need little training and the disaster recovery process is much simpler.“ — Beat Müller, System Engineer, Virtual Infrastructure Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
The Business Challenge INDUSTRY:
Flow meters COMPANY:
For more than 30 years, Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG has been a leading manufacturer of industrial flow meters for liquids, gas and steam. Over 1,000 employees at five production sites around the world make products for a wide range of industries such as chemical, life sciences, petrochemical, electricity generation, paper, filling and dosing machines, and so on. Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG is part of the Endress+Hauser Group. The Endress+Hauser Group is a leading supplier of measuring instruments and automation services for the industrial process engineering sector.
CHALLENGE: Implement a fast, reliable and efficient VMware backup and recovery solution for the largely virtualized environment and the applications it runs.
Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG has been increasingly virtualizing their server landscape with VMware since 2006. In 2010, the VMware environment consisted of four vSphere 4.1 servers and two ESXi servers with some 70 virtual instances. The systems were backed up by scripts (vmbk) that copied the VMs to an external storage medium and ran on the local ESX hosts. These processes were very time consuming and no longer suited the purpose of virtualizing the IT infrastructure. In line with their periodical software renewal plan, Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG decided to implement a modern backup and replication solution. System engineers Beat Müller and Markus Altermatt joined forces with Dell S.A., Switzerland to find a solution that responded to their needs. The solution had to be able to securely backup and quickly recover business-critical applications such as Microsoft SQL Server, Active Directory and various file servers. Important selection criteria included the acceleration of the backup time, as well as the flexibility and reliability of the solution in different recovery scenarios. Two options were therefore evaluated in the concept phase: First, a traditional backup concept with a product for physical and virtual servers. Next, an innovative version with a backup solution that was specifically designed for virtual IT environments.
The Veeam Solution Veeam Backup & Replication™ v5 Enterprise Edition was evaluated along with other products in this category. Compared with the competition, Veeam’s solution stood out with its error-free deduplication and fast backup and restore speeds. Successful tests, user friendliness and the advanced functions of vPower all spoke in favor of Veeam. Beat Müller said: “The product is now confirming our performance and functionality tests in the live environment. The backup time has been reduced considerably: A full backup now takes only five percent of the time it used to.” Adding a Dell EqualLogic PS6000E and additional Dell servers to the existing infrastructure and using iSCSI technology in the back end have also accelerated and simplified the backup and recovery processes and readied them for a further expansion of the virtual infrastructure. Together with Dell, Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG created a secure and easy-to-manage backup and replication solution that meets the company’s requirements for a secure virtual IT infrastructure.
To learn more, visit: www.veeam.com
SUCCESS STORY
The Results SOLUTION: Veeam Backup & Replication™ v5 Enterprise Edition is a 2-in-1 product that offers backup and replication functionality for virtual machines on VMware ESX©. It uses virtualization technology and the patent-pending vPower technologies for fast, flexible and reliable recovery of all virtualized applications, services and data.
RESULTS: • Easy to use • High performance (increased speed of backup and recovery processes) • Stability, reliability • Deduplication/compression • Recovery of individual files, folders, disks or entire systems
Beat Müller of Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG is very happy he chose Veeam Backup & Replication v5: “The solution is intuitive and easy to use. It makes implementing and creating new backup jobs as easy as apple pie. Administrators need little training and the disaster recovery process is much simpler.” The ease of use and the backup and recovery processes are not the only things that increase the speed of the processes; using Dell technology across the board does, too. The whole concept and the interplay between Veeam Backup & Replication v5 and Dell’s hardware save a significant amount of time. The high stability and reliability of Veeam’s backup solution is a great improvement for Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG. The ability to fall back on a sound backup to recover a file or sever system in the event of a disaster is a great relief to the IT department. The IT department is in a much better position to meet the company’s day-to-day requirements and is looking forward to expanding its VMware environment.
About Veeam Software Veeam Software, an Elite VMware Technology Alliance Partner, develops innovative software to manage VMware vSphere®. Veeam vPower™ provides advanced Virtualization-Powered Data Protection™ and is the underlying technology in Veeam Backup & Replication™, the #1 virtualization backup solution. Veeam nworks extends enterprise monitoring to VMware and includes the nworks Management Pack™ for VMware management in Microsoft System Center and the nworks Smart Plugin™ for VMware management in HP Operations Manager. Veeam ONE™ provides a single solution to optimize the performance, configuration and utilization of VMware environments and includes: Veeam Monitor™ for easy-to-deploy VMware monitoring; Veeam Reporter™ for VMware capacity planning, change management, and reporting and chargeback; and Veeam Business View™ for VMware business service management and categorization. Learn more about Veeam Software by visiting www.veeam.com.
To learn more, visit: www.veeam.com © 2011 Veeam Software. All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 08042011
Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG, a leading manufacturer of flow meters, uses Veeam Backup & Replication v5 Enterprise Edition “Veeam Backup & Replication v5 is intuitive and easy to use. It makes implementing and creating new backup jobs as easy as apple pie. Administrators need little training and the disaster recovery process is much simpler.“ — Beat Müller, System Engineer, Virtual Infrastructure Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG
The Business Challenge INDUSTRY:
Flow meters COMPANY:
For more than 30 years, Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG has been a leading manufacturer of industrial flow meters for liquids, gas and steam. Over 1,000 employees at five production sites around the world make products for a wide range of industries such as chemical, life sciences, petrochemical, electricity generation, paper, filling and dosing machines, and so on. Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG is part of the Endress+Hauser Group. The Endress+Hauser Group is a leading supplier of measuring instruments and automation services for the industrial process engineering sector.
CHALLENGE: Implement a fast, reliable and efficient VMware backup and recovery solution for the largely virtualized environment and the applications it runs.
Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG has been increasingly virtualizing their server landscape with VMware since 2006. In 2010, the VMware environment consisted of four vSphere 4.1 servers and two ESXi servers with some 70 virtual instances. The systems were backed up by scripts (vmbk) that copied the VMs to an external storage medium and ran on the local ESX hosts. These processes were very time consuming and no longer suited the purpose of virtualizing the IT infrastructure. In line with their periodical software renewal plan, Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG decided to implement a modern backup and replication solution. System engineers Beat Müller and Markus Altermatt joined forces with Dell S.A., Switzerland to find a solution that responded to their needs. The solution had to be able to securely backup and quickly recover business-critical applications such as Microsoft SQL Server, Active Directory and various file servers. Important selection criteria included the acceleration of the backup time, as well as the flexibility and reliability of the solution in different recovery scenarios. Two options were therefore evaluated in the concept phase: First, a traditional backup concept with a product for physical and virtual servers. Next, an innovative version with a backup solution that was specifically designed for virtual IT environments.
The Veeam Solution Veeam Backup & Replication™ v5 Enterprise Edition was evaluated along with other products in this category. Compared with the competition, Veeam’s solution stood out with its error-free deduplication and fast backup and restore speeds. Successful tests, user friendliness and the advanced functions of vPower all spoke in favor of Veeam. Beat Müller said: “The product is now confirming our performance and functionality tests in the live environment. The backup time has been reduced considerably: A full backup now takes only five percent of the time it used to.” Adding a Dell EqualLogic PS6000E and additional Dell servers to the existing infrastructure and using iSCSI technology in the back end have also accelerated and simplified the backup and recovery processes and readied them for a further expansion of the virtual infrastructure. Together with Dell, Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG created a secure and easy-to-manage backup and replication solution that meets the company’s requirements for a secure virtual IT infrastructure.
To learn more, visit: www.veeam.com
SUCCESS STORY
The Results SOLUTION: Veeam Backup & Replication™ v5 Enterprise Edition is a 2-in-1 product that offers backup and replication functionality for virtual machines on VMware ESX©. It uses virtualization technology and the patent-pending vPower technologies for fast, flexible and reliable recovery of all virtualized applications, services and data.
RESULTS: • Easy to use • High performance (increased speed of backup and recovery processes) • Stability, reliability • Deduplication/compression • Recovery of individual files, folders, disks or entire systems
Beat Müller of Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG is very happy he chose Veeam Backup & Replication v5: “The solution is intuitive and easy to use. It makes implementing and creating new backup jobs as easy as apple pie. Administrators need little training and the disaster recovery process is much simpler.” The ease of use and the backup and recovery processes are not the only things that increase the speed of the processes; using Dell technology across the board does, too. The whole concept and the interplay between Veeam Backup & Replication v5 and Dell’s hardware save a significant amount of time. The high stability and reliability of Veeam’s backup solution is a great improvement for Endress+Hauser Flowtec AG. The ability to fall back on a sound backup to recover a file or sever system in the event of a disaster is a great relief to the IT department. The IT department is in a much better position to meet the company’s day-to-day requirements and is looking forward to expanding its VMware environment.
About Veeam Software Veeam Software, an Elite VMware Technology Alliance Partner, develops innovative software to manage VMware vSphere®. Veeam vPower™ provides advanced Virtualization-Powered Data Protection™ and is the underlying technology in Veeam Backup & Replication™, the #1 virtualization backup solution. Veeam nworks extends enterprise monitoring to VMware and includes the nworks Management Pack™ for VMware management in Microsoft System Center and the nworks Smart Plugin™ for VMware management in HP Operations Manager. Veeam ONE™ provides a single solution to optimize the performance, configuration and utilization of VMware environments and includes: Veeam Monitor™ for easy-to-deploy VMware monitoring; Veeam Reporter™ for VMware capacity planning, change management, and reporting and chargeback; and Veeam Business View™ for VMware business service management and categorization. Learn more about Veeam Software by visiting www.veeam.com.
To learn more, visit: www.veeam.com © 2011 Veeam Software. All rights reserved. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. 08042011
