Case Study: Whirlpool
- jonathanmoore6
- Aug 4, 2017
- 2 min read
About Whirlpool
Whirlpool Corporation (NYSE: WHR) is a leading home appliance company, in constant pursuit of improving life at home. As the last-remaining major U.S.-based manufacturer of kitchen and laundry appliances, the company is driving meaningful innovation to meet the evolving needs of consumers through its iconic brand portfolio, including Whirlpool, KitchenAid, JennAir, Maytag, Amana, Brastemp, Consul, and InSinkErator. Additional information about the company can be found at WhirlpoolCorp.com.
The Challenge
Whirlpool wanted to implement a disaster recovery strategy for an application using Fibre Channel storage, and struggled to find a Disaster Recovery solution that could handle this configuration. They ruled out storage-based replication, as it was expensive and did not provide them with the cloud-enabled solution they wanted, and eventually came to RackWare for a solution.
The DR was for a complex, multi-tiered application that was going to be failed over. This was a customer facing, revenue generating, production application of over 120 virtual machines (VM’s) running on VMware’s vCloud Air in their Texas datacenter, which needed to be replicated and synced to a similar data center in Nevada. These VMs included working production, mission-critical systems of multiple application types and multiple customer SLAs.
The RackWare Solution
RackWare was able to:
Provide complete disaster recovery for the application and its associated Fibre Channel data. The Fibre Channel portion of the origin was automatically replicated as a local partition in the target cloud environment.
Configure a policy to synchronize the entire server with the Fibre Channel portion without requiring FC in the target environment.
Accommodate the Fibre Channel data from the origin to the cloud, while keeping the application and all its data protected and available.
The Result
Whirlpool was able to comply with its internal data protection and IT resiliency policies, while reducing costs and replacing ineffective replication technologies, which saved additional CapEx and ongoing OpEx to support the legacy solution.
To learn more about how RackWare can help you protect your workloads in the cloud, contact us.
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