VVOLs and Pure win VM storage beauty parade for French chain
Summary
“We were at an impasse,” said Edouard Jugie, technical lead at Beauty Success, which has more than 300 outlets across France connected to core applications by VPN at its Dordogne datacentre. For example, it shows statistics for bottlenecks that allow performance problems to be anticipated.” NetApp promised equivalent functionality would soon be delivered and both vendors were committed to supporting VVOLs. It wasn’t the fabric that gave us problems so replacing it with better-performing Fibre Channel can wait.” Beauty Success’s integrator partner Solution Data helped Jugie and his team with the migration. That’s the proof that we don’t have an urgent need to modernise our Fibre Channel infrastructure and that we have good reason to think VVOLs poses us no problem at all.” Regarding performance, Jugie’s team have measured a 3x improvement compared to before the VVOLs/Pure deployment,” he said. We had to plan the operation, which wasn’t very practical and we could only consent to it once a year,” explained Jugie, of a process that ended up looking more like it obeyed the needs of the calendar rather than technical imperatives.