CBC Group of Companies in Kazakhstan Selects Qsan

CBC Group of Companies, a provider for automotive industry (trucks and special equipment), logistics (cargo transportation) and construction based in the Republic of Kazakhstan, selected Qsan Technology, Inc.

CBC Group provides integrated solutions, products and services of high quality for industrial and consumer purposes.

Challenge
The company needed to modernize its IT infrastructure and move to a virtual environment. It was required to find an effective solution in terms of the ratio of performance, reliability, functionality and price.

Solution:

• Virtualization storage
• IT infrastructure

After a market analysis and consultation services from storage specialist, Vista Systems, LLP, it was decided to stick with the following configuration with Qsan storage platform:

• Open-source version of the Proxmox virtualization platform
• Storage access interface – iSCSI
• Avoid using expensive high-speed switches
• Support third-party drives

Benefits:

• Support of a range of interfaces with the possibility of expansion, no need for switches.
• Support of third-party drives, savings when buying expensive SSDs.
• Auto-tiering and SSD cache support, excellent balance of performance and cost of drives.
• HA design – two active-active controllers.
• Performing solution (fully covers current requirements) with scalability.
• The ability to expand disk space online.

In the future, it is planned to build a DR solution, as well as purchase at least one JBOD for one of the storage systems in order to enlarge capacity.

• Recommended product: XCubeSAN 3200
• Recommended models: XS3226

Recommended features:

• HA
• Auto-tiering