The Who
- World-renowned fast-food chain
- 900 UK restaurants
- 50 brand-operated restaurants, with the remaining number as franchises
- 2x UK datacentres
The Challenge
- Looking to refresh their server infrastructure
- Technology close to end of life
- Also needed to upgrade VMware hypervisor
- Creating performance bottlenecks
- Need later arose to refresh their storage also
The Solution
- Initial review of both physical and virtual environment
- Discovered hardware wouldn't allow upgrades to the latest version of VMware hypervisor
- Proposed a hyperconverged infrastructure be explored
- Various solutions evaluated and Nutanix selected
- Ensured compatibility with rest of the infrastructure
- Enabled compute and storage to be refreshed in a single project
The Benefits
- License savings by replacing VMware hypervisor with that included with Nutanix
- Huge reduction in support costs and OPEX savings
- Improved visibility of estate using Nutanix management tools
- Added resiliency thanks to spare nodes in event of failover
- Reduced footprint creating massive space savings in datacentre
Why Servium?
- Liked the different alternatives put forwards
- Evaluated an emerging technology that otherwise would have been overlooked
- Strong relationship with Nutanix got right resources engaged in project
- Extensive knowledge of customer estate made for easier implementation
