CASE STUDY

ANA AEROPORTOS DE

LOCATION: PORTUGAL | INDUSTRY: TRAVEL

StorMagic SvSAN keeps Airport remain clear of obstructions and that the jetways moving with a cost effective solution can reach the plane doors. maintaining uptime for vital docking The manufacturer of ’s A-VDGS, systems Swedish company FMT, recommended the airport refresh the infrastructure running the guiding systems. The overhaul would be overseen by Pedro Ponte, IT Consultant for ANA Aeroportos at Lisbon Airport.

SOLUTION

BUSINESS CHALLENGE The IT systems running the A-VDGS in Lisbon had become old and outdated. As the Portuguese airport authority, ANA Right from the outset, cost was a Aeroportos is responsible for managing 10 of major factor as the search for a Portugal’s public airports, including the country’s replacement began. The project’s largest - Lisbon Airport - which is also known as total budget was strictly controlled Humberto Delgado Airport. and needed to include all the server hardware, software and Lisbon Airport is the main international gateway a new highly secure network to Portugal and a major European hub, ranked for this critical project. The 24th largest in Europe by passenger volume. In airport needed new servers 2016 it served 22.4 million passengers, the most which could be spread in its history. It is the most strategically important over multiple locations European hub to , and is also one of the for disaster recovery most important European hubs to Africa. and full redundancy. This was critical As passenger numbers increase and pressure on as the guiding the airport’s infrastructure grows, ANA are tasked systems are an with operating the airport and maintaining a high integral part of level of service, while allowing airlines to meet the airport’s their own service levels and punctuality targets. operations. A vital element to achieve this is the airport’s An additional Advanced Visual Docking Guiding System aim of the (A-VDGS). This allows pilots to quickly and project efficiently dock their aircraft, ensuring the planes was to

StorMagic. Copyright © 2020. All rights reserved. allow the how quickly and easily SvSAN was set up and I can’t believe how easy and airport to operational. Another key benefit that ANA has reliable StorMagic SvSAN utilize all realized from the project is that even planned truly is. The Lisbon airport of VMware’s downtime for this application was completely now has the confidence features eliminated. Whenever there is a need to update that our airplane docking/ included with servers (hardware, software, firmware) they are guiding system can their Enterprise able to fail one server and let the active server survive almost any edition of vSphere, temporarily handle all IO, and then fail-back and type of failure, and we but VMware’s update the second server. This saves the IT team saved a whole bunch virtual storage considerable time and effort and allows updates of money along the solution proved too to happen during operational hours. way. expensive. Thanks to its full compatibility and WHY STORMAGIC Pedro Ponte integration with vSphere, IT Consultant Pedro’s team was able to The project at Lisbon Airport was a simple, select StorMagic SvSAN to but critical one. ANA needed a lightweight, provide the highly available low cost solution that would deliver high virtual storage on which the availability in a virtualized environment. SvSAN A-VDGS would run, at a fraction fitted this bill perfectly, and Pedro describes of the cost of VMware vSAN. implementing SvSAN as “easy, cheap and reliable”. SvSAN’s simple two node architecture StorMagic SvSAN was deployed and straightforward deployment allowed Pedro in two locations 1.5km apart within and his team to have the solution up and running Lisbon Airport (each with its own very quickly and consuming minimal resources. fully redundant power) to ensure This simplicity also generated cost savings - redundancy and mitigate against with the strict budget that ANA were operating localized disasters that might result in to, they needed a solution that was affordable. unscheduled downtime. Within a couple SvSAN came in considerably below the cost of of days of deploying SvSAN, Pedro’s team competitor solutions without compromising was able to create a fully redundant scenario on any of the features necessary to ensure the - validating SvSAN’s capabilities in delivering airport’s guiding system remained online and a highly available solution which eliminates functioning. A simple, cost effective solution downtime. Pedro couldn’t believe the results; keeping Lisbon Airport’s vital systems online - it’s “it was really amazing” he said when describing StorMagic SvSAN.

Server Configuration (Per Server) SvSAN License SvSAN 2TB Platinum Hardware Dell PowerEdge R730 CPU 4 per server Memory 96GB per server Storage 5x 2.5” 15K hard disks (RAID5) with a total capacity of 1TB, plus 2x 250GB SSDs (RAID1) Networking 1Gb Industrial-grade Ethernet Hypervisor vSphere Enterprise Edition Applications Lisbon Airport’s Advanced Visual Docking Guiding System (A-VDGS), manufactured by FMT. A system designed to help guide planes as they park, ensuring they avoid obstructions and are aligned correctly with the jetways. Data Protection VMware tools

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