Amway migrates workloads to VMware Virtual SAN, doubles performance

BANGALORE, INDIA: Amway has doubled workload performance at a fraction of the cost of traditional storage with VMware Virtual SAN, said VMware.

VMware Virtual SAN provides shared storage for virtualized production environments with a simple scale-out model that leverages server hardware from every major server provider to deliver lower total cost of ownership than any enterprise storage solution. The cloud-like flexibility and simplicity of Virtual SAN deployed in a hyper-converged form factor minimizes both capital and operational expenses.

“For a long time we have been wanting to virtualize our legacy business systems but limited SAN capacity and high costs of scaling fiber channel storage slowed the execution,” said Jason Montgomery, senior systems engineer, Amway. “Virtual SAN finally allowed us to virtualize quickly, and with a significant cost savings.”

Amway migrated 300 workloads including application servers and databases running on physical servers and a traditional storage array to VMware Virtual SAN. Beyond cost savings, Amway effectively doubled the performance of workloads running on VMware Virtual SAN.

“Customers who originally bought into the exciting consolidation benefits of hyper-convergence are quickly expanding their use cases to business-critical applications now that enterprise storage features are fully supported and flash performance is available,” said Lee Caswell, vice president of Products, Storage and Availability Business Unit, VMware.