DataCore Software Empowers Virtualization at German Teaching
Hospital and Clinical Center; Meets Performance and Availability
Demands for SAP, iMedOne, Exchange and Oracle Applications
High Performance and Availability made possible by DataCore Software
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany - October 12, 2009 - DataCore
Software, a leading provider of storage virtualization, business
continuity and disaster recovery software solutions, today announced
that the clinical center Garmisch-Partenkirchen, supported by solution
provider ASSISTRA AG, has carried out a storage virtualization project
and implemented a high-availability SAN (Storage Area Network) with
DataCore Software. The combined virtual server and storage
infrastructure provides for failsafe business operation of all
production systems and meets the demand of performance-hungry
applications such as the iMedOne hospital information system, SAP and
its Oracle data base.
For the two symmetric data centers, ASSISTRA AG implemented two disk
subsystem arrays from HDS along with two DELL servers to run the
SANmelody software. These storage servers provide the virtualization
and storage provisioning of the disk resources and capacity for the
VMware environment that supports 60 virtual machines. In normal
operation, they are run in Active/Active mode meaning both systems run
independently but can cover for the failure of the other and thus they
enable high overall performance and productivity. Should a system fail,
the remaining storage server will automatically take over its tasks
thanks to DataCore's automatic failover and failback function. Thus,
VMware's high availability capabilities for servers are being
complemented optimally by DataCore on the storage side.
Currently, the clinical center uses over 15 TB from a heterogeneous
mix of SATA and FC disk subsystems. The hospital information system
iMedOne registers the highest performance demands since it needs to
support the workloads for about 450 workstations from three virtual
servers. The complete SAP environment, including Oracle databases and
the Microsoft Exchange, file and print services, also support
approximately the same number of access workstations. Both of these
resource-consuming systems are now integrated into the SAN.
Savings from Virtualization
"The centralization of the entire working IT system was a strategic
decision in order to reduce the variety of systems needing to be
supported and to increase the system stability," explains Dr. Thomas
Schmeidl, head of IT and quality management department at the clinical
center Garmisch-Partenkirchen. "ASSISTRA's detailed proposal fit our
needs both in terms of price and performance: The new DataCore SAN
solution fulfills our demand for high availability business continuity,
performance and flexible storage expansion to meet our requirements.
Besides the purchasing savings achieved through hardware independence,
we see significant advantages in administration. Resource-intensive
tasks which were painful and time consuming can now be accomplished in
the shortest time."
"The integrated virtualization of server and storage resources means
greater efficiency and the ability to cut hospital overhead costs. The
hardware independence, better resource utilization and benefits of
automation allow the data center to improve efficiency and enable
decision makers to keep costs under control. With DataCore, we have the
right partnership; they offer field proven technology and the best
price performance ratio in storage virtualization," adds Dirk Neumann,
Chairman of ASSISTRA AG.
The clinical center Garmisch-Partenkirchen, a university teaching
hospital of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, is a modern
hospital with more than 500 beds and approximately 19,000 patients per
year. The hospital has around 1,000 employees as well as
state-of-the-art diagnostic and therapeutic equipment delivering a high
level of medical care that is available 24 hours every day. The clinic
is especially renowned for its department for joint replacement
(endoprothetics), the center for internal medicine as well as for
accident surgery and sports orthopedics.
About DataCore Software
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software solutions, fundamentally changes the economics of managing
storage with innovative software that combines advanced functions and
services with the agility and savings of hardware independence.
DataCore lowers the cost and complexity of IT by making storage
efficient, fast, flexible, fail-safe and virtual. For more information,
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