Dr. Schumacher GmbH
Dr. Schumacher GmbH is a German family-owned company specializing in the development and production of disinfectants, hygiene and cleaning agents as well as care and cosmetic products. The family-owned company has been based in northern Hesse since 1978 and in Malsfeld-Beiseförth since 1983. There, Dr. Schumacher GmbH produces both under its own brand and on behalf of well-known branded companies, retail chains and industrial companies as a private label/OEM manufacturer.
Customer since:
2014
Industry:
Chemistry/Industry
City:
Malsfeld
Implementation of a HCI environment on Dell VxRail
Requirements
- A comprehensive modernization of the IT infrastructure is needed at the customer's corporate headquarters to meet the requirements of the demanding, digitized production environment.
- The first step was to replace the heterogeneous core with a network based entirely on Alcatel technology.
- The second step was then to implement a fail-safe, virtualized hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).
Services & Solutions
- To implement the first step, the IT experts set up a second data center to integrate a Datacenter Core with a 40 Gigabit backbone and a 10 Gigabit chassis based on Alcatel switches. In parallel, the Core network in the original data center has been expanded, renewed and also migrated to a uniform hardware basis. Both data centers were connected by high-performance fiber optic cables (FOC) and then commissioned by the project team.
- In the second step, ten redundant Dell EMC VxRail appliances were integrated. These hyperconverged systems (HCS) bundle computing, memory, storage, networking and graphics resources into a single platform.
- Managed Services: Controlware experts are tasked with operating the Alcatel switches and are responsible for monitoring, update and patch management, and maintenance of the two VxRail appliances.
Advantages & Benefits
- The use of an HCS enables sustainable consolidation and standardization of the company-wide server landscape, which guarantees significantly more efficient operation.
- The redundant infrastructure with fiber-optic networked HCI appliances ensures improved reliability.
- The standardized virtualized server infrastructure makes it easier to implement and manage new applications quickly and efficiently.
- he project team developed a hyperconvergent virtualized architecture that combines excellent performance with maximum scalability - this is the basis for future growth of Dr. Schumacher GmbH.
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Solution partner:
Dell EMC
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