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Caja Rural Castilla-La ManchaVeeam Backup Solution with COMPAREX
COMPAREX Spain Success Story
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Caja Rural Castilla-La Mancha
The Caja Rural Castilla-La Mancha, a savings and loan cooperative, was found-
ed in 1963 and provides financial solutions to foster economic and social de-
velopment as part of its range of activities, specializing in the agricultural in-
dustry. The cooperative is based in Toledo, Spain, and has nearly 360 offices,
1,000 employees, and 400,000 customers.
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Key Facts
Sector: Finance
Service Description:Implementation of Veeam Backup Software solution in a banking customer
The Situation
The cooperative began updating its systems three years ago. The main goal
was to virtualize its infrastructure to the greatest degree possible. The next
steps included improving the backup and storage strategy.
“Our backup solution was outdated, it managed the virtual machines as if they
were physical ones, and it took forever to run the backup operations. There
wasn’t enough time to backup the systems that we wanted to every day. We
needed a solution that could deal with virtualized environments, reduce the
backup timeframes, minimize storage space as much as possible, and is easy to
implement and manage due to our limited human resources,” explains Vicente
Campayo, head of systems engineering at the Caja Rural Castilla-La Mancha.
» Long backup timeframes, compounded by the solution’s
inability to optimize virtualized environments
» Need to reduce the amount of backup space required
» Limited human resources available to manage backup and
recovery tasks
Challenges
It went so fast when we made a backup
on the first day that I thought we had done
something wrong. I was genuinely impressed.
Likewise, for Virtual Lab, the lab environment
for checking backups and recoveries in min-
utes.
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Success Story
Veeam Backup & Replication
Representatives from the cooperative attended an event
on Microsoft Hyper-V, the hypervisor running its virtual
infrastructure, where they learned about the existence
of Veeam® Backup & Replication™. The information
and demonstrations offered by the Veeam team and
COMPAREX, its technology partner, convinced the
group from the cooperative of this solution’s strengths
over the competition.
“Veeam, without a doubt, is the best solution available
on the market today to back up completely virtualized
environments. Because it is based on the hypervisor’s
backup APIs, there’s no need to use agents on the virtu-
al machines. Further, it makes it possible to integrate the
entire gamut of virtualization features. The project took
only one month to implement, thanks to our close co-
operation with the cooperative’s team,” points out Car-
los Cardeñoso, Senior Consultant at COMPAREX.
Project Description
Veeam Backup & Replication is integrated into a data cen-
ter on Windows Server 2012 R2, which runs eight hosts
and 70 virtual machines, providing support for critical
applications such as an intranet managed by Microsoft
SharePoint, email with Microsoft Exchange, file servers,
and the Microsoft Lync messaging platform. The storage
system features an HP 3PAR StoreServ 7400 array, with
an EMC CLARiiON CX3-20 storage unit and tapes for di-
saster recovery. These devices will be replaced by an HP
array of the same type in a second data center, which will
be set up soon and then connected using Veeam.
Implementing the Veeam solution has changed the dy-
namics of performing backups and the associated time-
frames entirely at the company, which has a total storage
capacity of 18 TB. Previously, the IT team was not capable
of performing a backup of all machines every day because
it would have taken too long. Now, the process takes one
hour only for an incremental backup, compared to ten
hours under the old setup. It used to take the entire week-
end for a weekly backup, which can now be performed in
90 minutes.
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Vicente CampayoHead of Systems Engineering
Caja Rural Castilla-La Mancha
Saving Time and Increasing Efficiency
The cooperative has seen impressive results thanks to
the combination of advanced duplication and compres-
sion tools provided by Veeam Backup & Replication with
the deduplication of Windows Server 2012 R2 under
Microsoft Hyper-V: “We were able to back up things
90% faster than before, and we only need around half
of the storage space. For example, a 300 GB machine
could be shrunk to 130 GB. It went so fast when we
made a backup on the first day that I thought we had
done something wrong. I was genuinely impressed. Like-
wise, for Virtual Lab, the lab environment for checking
backups and recoveries in minutes,” emphasizes Vicente
Campayo.
Successful Recovery Tests
In this context, the head of systems engineering at the
Caja Rural Castilla-La Mancha holds the recovery tests
performed in the Virtual Lab environment by Veeam in
high regard. “We are able to set up a 300 GB machine
in 20 minutes. It used to take us six hours. Before you
would blindly perform the recovery and take the risk of
implementing it in live production. Now you run the tests
first and then load it.”
One of the other features that Vicente Campayo likes to
point out is the high granularity of Veeam’s file recovery
capability: “We can restore individual folders and emails
with Veeam Explorer for Microsoft Exchange immedi-
ately and without mistakes. And until we can upgrade
Microsoft SharePoint to SharePoint 2013 and use Veeam
Explorer for Microsoft SharePoint, we are using the tool
U-Air® for recovering the Active Directory if something
happens to get deleted and are quite happy with it.”
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At a Glance
» 90% faster backups and half the storage space:
Previously, the cooperative was not able to backup their systems every day.
Now it only takes one hour to perform an incremental backup of all of
the virtual machines and 90 minutes for a weekly backup of everything.
It used to take all weekend. It is all possible without affecting the live
system. Compression levels are more than twice before, reducing storage
consumption.
» Virtual machines can be restored up to 15 times faster:
The time to restore a 300 GB machine has dropped from six hours to just
20 minutes, for example. And it can be performed in a secure lab environ-
ment (Virtual Lab), which prevents you from affecting the live system and
having to check the optimal confi guration of your programs.
» Intuitive administration with a detailed alerting feature:
You no longer need a special training course to learn how to operate
Veeam. The introductory presentation is all that is needed. The ease of
performing backups is complemented by granular browsing tools such as
U-Air and Veeam Explorer, with which you can instantly restore fi les from
a number of different systems.
Success Story
Backup Solution with COMPAREX
Key Facts
Software:Veeam Backup & Replication; MicrosoftHyperV
Operating System:Windows 2012
Database:Microsoft SQL Server 2012
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Impressive Results
In addition to the features, Vicente Campayo stresses how easy and intuitive
it is to operate the software, and its alerting capability only adds to its ease of
use. “It’s a solution that you can tell that people are working to improve on it.
Veeam Software acts very quickly, rolling out patches that improve productivity
as soon as possible. It far exceeded my expectations and I wouldn’t hesitate
recommending it to CLMTech, a technology company affi liated with the co-
operative that provides solutions to city councils that are trying to improve their
backup times and storage capacity.
COnTACT
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