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Scalable High- Availability Storage for It Worldwide Services CASE STUDY TRUENAS® – SCALABLE HIGH- AVAILABILITY STORAGE FOR IT WORLDWIDE SERVICES Chantilly, VA Professional IT Services Summary Benefits Challenge: Low Storage Density / No Scalability • Higher Storage Density Solution: TrueNAS • High Availability Use Case: Virtualization & Hosting • Easy & Unified Management iXsystems.com | Case Study - ITWWS | Industry - Professional IT Services Page 1 “ FreeNAS® is great, I really love the product. We had it running in the data center and that worked out really well. TrueNAS was a natural progression for our needs.” - Todd Lamonia, President & CEO THE STORAGE performance loss due to the low found that TrueNAS uses the same number of spinning disks per unit. web interface as FreeNAS and CHALLENGE IT Worldwide Services decided it adds mission-critical features such was time to invest in a new storage as Fibre Channel, gold-standard IT Worldwide Services offers solution that would meet the customer support, and High network design and hosting on demanding High Availability (HA) Availability. After speaking with VMware servers to provide high needs of their customers. iXsystems, they were confident performance and highly available that TrueNAS would provide storage to clients, as well as the enterprise-grade solution management services and technical VMWARE HOSTING they needed to take their data support for VMware configurations. WITH TRUENAS management to the next level. IT Worldwide Services started out using Buffalo Terastations IT Worldwide Services was already IT Worldwide Services chose as primary virtual machine (VM) familiar with the ZFS-based storage TrueNAS because of its modular storage for their clients, which operating system FreeNAS, after high-end hardware components, worked for a while. deploying it on other servers in high speed read and write their data center. While testing caching, high scalability, ease of However, each Terastation could FreeNAS, they heard about management, and low cost per only support a small number of TrueNAS, the Enterprise edition of gigabyte. TrueNAS is built on the drives, severely limiting scalability. FreeNAS developed and built by FreeBSD operating system, widely This led to inefficiency and iXsystems. IT Worldwide Services known for its legendary stability. iXsystems.com | Case Study - ITWWS | Industry - Professional IT Services Page 2 “ I had deployed The TrueNAS unified storage A failed controller can also be FreeNAS in the solution was pre-configured with serviced without interruption to dual controllers, two expansion the system. All of this provides IT DataCenter on some shelves, and two hot spare disks. Worldwide Services with peace of Dell R715 servers Network redundancy was easily mind that their data is safely stored and really loved integrated with aggregated data with TrueNAS. the simplicity of links connected to 2x10GbE Cisco management. The web switches. Beyond performance and reliability, TrueNAS is highly scalable storage. interface is nice and IT Worldwide Services can now host IT Worldwide Services will need to easy to use. We just a large amount of virtual machines expand storage as their business didn’t have enough with a variety of operating systems grows. With TrueNAS, expansion throughput and including CentOS, Ubuntu, and shelves can be easily added to needed something with various editions of Windows Server. quickly and painlessly upgrade storage capacity. High Availability to fit IMPROVED our service offering of Minimizing downtime and data no downtime. TrueNAS PERFORMANCE loss is essential for IT Worldwide filled those needs.” AND RELIABILITY Services. With data growing at WITH TRUENAS approximately 50% annually, - Todd Lamonia meeting recovery objectives became HIGH AVAILABILITY difficult for native, legacy tools, so they used a third-party backup Since deploying their TrueNAS product, Veeam. system, IT Worldwide Services has seen improved performance on TrueNAS is completely Veeam multiple fronts. Maintenance tasks Certified, ensuring that it will quickly take 75% less time overall and backup their customers’ VMs and applications load approximately 50% data with no change to existing faster. The system administrators procedures. iXsystems provides at IT Worldwide Services experience 24/7 support for IT Worldwide significantly quicker VM build times, Services, eliminating the risk of VM freeing them up for other important downtime should any problems tasks. arise. In addition to substantial performance gains, TrueNAS has dramatically reduced downtime. Because of high availability in TrueNAS, IT Worldwide Services can seamlessly switch to the other controller without interrupting workflows or losing any data. iXsystems.com | Case Study - ITWWS | Industry - Professional IT Services Page 3 CONCLUSION interface allows them to configure since 2009. After rapid growth, and manage their VMs with minimal they launched the brand of IT IT Worldwide Systems needed a headache. Maintenance was greatly Worldwide Services in 2014, which solution that supported multiple reduced and support was improved, offers advanced and innovative types of servers and VM instances resulting in a better user experience services and solutions in the private out of the box. for their customers. and public sector. They offer many services including network They also needed to eliminate the ABOUT IT design, system administration, risk of VM downtime in the case of a 24x7 technical support, .NET hardware failure. TrueNAS helped WORLDWIDE software development, virtual them reduce their data loss risk SERVICES machine hosting and more. They and provided them with the power, are authorized resellers for many stability, and reliability required to IT Worldwide Services is a subsidiary popular brands, offering technical meet the service level expectations of Intellifed Corporation which has expertise and support in addition to of their customers. The ease-of- provided IT and telecommunications hardware and licensing. use of the TrueNAS administrative services to the US Government iXsystems.com | Case Study - ITWWS | Industry - Professional IT Services Page 4 ABOUT IXSYSTEMS Through decades of expertise in system design and development of Open Source software (FreeNAS, FreeBSD, OpenZFS, and TrueOS), iXsystems has become an innovation leader in a global marketplace that relies on Open Source solutions, high availability storage and servers, technology partnerships, and expert support. Since its founding in 2002, thousands of companies, universities, and government organizations have come to rely on iXsystems for its enterprise servers, TrueNAS Unified Storage, and consultative approach to building IT infrastructure and private clouds with Open Source economics. Millions of tech-savvy users also download and deploy our Open Source software each year. More information can be found at www.iXsystems.com. CONTACT Corporate Headquarters: Call Us: Web: 2490 Kruse Dr Toll-Free (USA Only) : (855) GREP-4-IX www.iXsystems.com San Jose, CA 95131 Phone : (408) 943-4100 Fax: (408) 943-4101 US South: E-mail: 222 Keller Ln Sales: [email protected] Maryville, TN 37801 © 2018 iXsystems. TrueNAS and FreeNAS are registered trademarks of iXsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. iXsystems.com | Case Study - ITWWS | Industry - Professional IT Services Page 5.
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