Business Needs
强大，高性能和易于管理灾难恢复平台。
解决方案
- Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform中的主要数据中心和远程DR网站
- VMware管理程序
- Zerto Replication Software
Benefits
- 100% platform uptime since inception
- 50% reduction in rack space
- Single pane of management for production and DR infrastructure
- Reliable performance SLAs
- Single point of contact for service and support
Background
Millennia Computer Services是一家具有IT云的服务公司，专门托管软件定义的数据中心技术。基础设施的可靠性加上他们成为客户IT部门扩展的能力，使数千年可以与主要的票务和休闲客户建立长期合作伙伴关系，这些伙伴每年需要一个可靠的平台出售数百万张门票。
The year was 2014 and Millennia Computer Services was looking to upgrade the IT infrastructure underpinning its hosting services to the leisure and ticketing industry, as John Thorpe, Technical Director explains.
“我们需要一个易于扩展的解决方案，以使我们能够应付现有客户不断增长的需求，并在没有叉车升级的情况下处理新业务，以扩展我们现有的3层基础架构。”
除此之外，索普（Thorpe）正在寻找一种既高度可靠又易于管理的系统。
索普说：“这已经成为一场真正的战斗，试图为我们的客户维持无缝的服务，并定期兼容和可用性问题加上冗长的时间表，试图让服务器和存储供应商拥有我们遇到的许多问题的所有权。”
At this point the company decided to migrate to the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform, a decision that has enabled the company to not just meet, but exceed its goals, as Thorpe enthuses.
“Instead of continually firefighting problems and worrying over scalability, the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform has freed us up to spend more time developing the business, confident in our ability to rapidly scale our IT infrastructure no matter what size of customer now walks through the door.”
挑战
快进到2016年，几千年的团队认为，现在是时候升级其灾难恢复能力，以与增强的生产平台保持同步。
“The one thing a DR system has to be is reliable and we were finding it increasingly hard to meet that requirement using the disparate collection of backup servers and storage left over from when we switched to the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform.”
Nutanix was the preferred supplier for this project but budget constraints initially forced the company to look at an alternative from a low-cost Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) vendor. This, however, failed to live up to its initial billing, falling far short of expectations when trialled in the Millennia Computer Services data centre.
“It soon became apparent that, when it comes to high availability, hyperconverged systems are not all made equal,” confirms Thorpe, “The low cost option simply wasn’t robust enough to risk with sensitive workloads like the hundreds of SQL Server databases employed by our customers whose income streams would instantly dry up in the face of any downtime.”
“It was a major wake up call,” he continued. “Reliability really is a key differentiator.”
解决方案
Given the importance of its DR service to Millennia’s fast evolving cloud hosting business the decision was taken to abandon the low-cost alternative and replace the legacy DR system with the same Nutanix Enterprise Cloud technology employed in the hosting company’s core data centre.
Providing much needed simplicity as well as resilience, at the heart of the Nutanix offering is the ability to leverage web-scale engineering and consumergrade design to natively integrate together compute, storage and virtualisation into a robust solution ideally suited to the DR role.
索普说：“这使我们完全想成为我们想要的位置，凭借与我们的核心托管服务相同的企业级基础架构，以实现灾难恢复，这使我们对我们提供DR作为服务的能力真正有信心。”
Nutanix Enterprise Cloud还包括Nutanix Acrocolis，这是一个交钥匙基础设施平台，还可以支持所有领先的虚拟化操纵处加上Nutanix Prism，这是一个单一的窗格管理和分析解决方案，使数nia能够监控和管理其核心托管和托管托管托管和管理，也可以支持所有领先的虚拟化操纵处和Nutanix Prism，nutanix Enterprise Cloud还包括Nutanix Enterprise Cloud，Nutanix Enterprise Cloud包括Nutanix Enterprise Cloud，以及易于扩展的硬件，以及易于扩展如Thorpe所解释的那样，DR平台在一起。
“事实上，我们不仅可以从一个游戏机中管理我们的所有物理资源，而且可以通过一个游戏机一起进行大量解放，使员工释放了专注于我们的核心业务 - 向客户提供可靠，高质量的高质量，云服务。”
结果
在将新的DR平台迅速而无缝集成到数千年的现有基础架构中后，Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform使托管公司完全相信其交付服务水平协议的能力。
索普很高兴。“一切都发生了变化。在我们的数据中心位置使用Nutanix平台使我们对向客户提供先进的业务连续性和灾难恢复服务的能力真正信心 - 从基本的异地数据复制到实时VM复制，以便对生命运行系统进行亚分钟的恢复。从感觉就像所有的绳子在一起，并且可能随时撞倒，我现在晚上睡觉了。”
As a business disillusioned with the inefficiencies of dealing with disparate hardware and different vendors, the simplicity of the single ownership of the Nutanix platform has also been a real eye opener.
他说：“努力尼克斯及其高素质的工程师的支持并没有以前试图解决问题根源的漫长而复杂的过程，但事实证明是无缝的，”他们的专业知识远远超出了自己的产品范围超越 - 一个电话确实可以做到这一切。”
下一步
In terms of the future it’s business as usual at Millennia Computer Services underpinned by the power of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud.
“We’re ready and waiting for the next big customer,” proclaims Thorpe, “and when they come along we don’t have to worry about forklift upgrades or support issues, all we have to do is work out how many extra Nutanix nodes we need. Added to which we can deliver seamless enterprise-grade DR as well. The proposition is improving all the time.”
Thorpe还热衷于利用作为Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform的一部分而包括的Acrocolis管理程序（AHV）。
“We would desperately like to switch from VMware to the Acropolis Hypervisor as it would save money and give us a much more stable platform to work with,” explains Thorpe. “We just need to wait for it to be supported by Zerto, the provider of our replication software, and we’ll switch like a shot.” Which could be any day now, as Nutanix is actively working with Zerto to provide support for its products on AHV – so watch this space.
当涉及高可用性时，超融合的系统并非全部相等。
John Thorpe, Technical Director – Millennia Computer Services