Russian Company Velomotors Opts for Qsan NAS

Velomotors, a Russian manufacturer of bikes and mototechnics founded in 1996, has chosen QSAN XCubeSAN XS3226-D and XN5008R NAS to protect its IT infrastructure.

Velomotors runs a huge production plant and has branch offices in almost all regions of Russia. Currently it is the biggest manufacturer of bikes in Europe.

Because of growth of data base volume and increase in the number of online users there was a need to improve the existing IT infrastructure in terms of reliability and redundancy. It was also necessary to improve the latency of the primary data base and ensure scalability in capacity and performance. Another important task was to create a centralized backup system. 

XCubeSAN XS3226-D was chosen as the primary storage for VM cluster and database. It is attached to servers via 10GbE iSCSI interface classical topology with two switches. As a result it eliminated possible points of failure thanks to double controllers, in/out ports and switches. The use of fast SFF drives provided both the required performance and a sufficient reserve for the future. High density design allowed to place all our drives in just two units. More than that iy has plenty of free bays for further expansion. To organize centralized backup system we chose two XN5008R NAS. This low cost model allows using LFF drives with high capacity capable of storing all backup copies. Two XN5008R units placed in different locations let arrange bidirectional replication of data between them, which ensures higher reliability of the stored copies.

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“We are happy to get a mono vendor storage solution with high quality support but without any limitations on using compatible drives from other vendors, said,” Pavel Dyakov, head of support team.

Godwin, a supplier of IT equipment and software to corporate customers in Russia, suggested the use of compatible drives in QSAN NAS saves investments. For the primary storage QSAN branded drives were chosen with the aim of getting complete support for the whole storage solution with NBD reaction. Built-in 10GbE iSCSI ports provide high speed access to the storage without extra costs.