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Hanover Attains Continuous Uptime with DataCore SANsymphony-V Deployed in a Synchronous Mirror Configuration – Ensuring Data Redundancy
HANOVER Pa. and FORT LAUDERDALE Fla. May 28 2015 – DataCore a leader in software-defined storage today announced that Hanover Hospital has realized continuous uptime with its high-availability software-defined storage and has significantly reduced the time and effort it takes to provision storage and systems.
“The biggest benefit Hanover Hospital has experienced from adopting DataCore has been true high availability due to the automatically synchronized virtual disks that are mirror protected and presented to different applications spanning our two on-campus datacenters” stated Douglas Null senior technical architect-MIS department Hanover Hospital. “Each data center shares critical workloads – yet provides physical separation of storage and compute in the event of a localized data center outage. DataCore SANsymphony-V is our only storage solution and it delivers ‘no touch’ failover and failback operation. It delivers a fully automated process. Other vendor solutions are replicated as active/passive need human intervention or scripts or require other point products or special configurations to bring the passive site online.”
Within healthcare IT is under enormous pressure to increase storage capacity improve resiliency and accelerate performance – all while managing costs. (See DataCore’s infographic: ) Hanover Hospital is one of more than 1000 healthcare customers that have trusted DataCore to virtualize its storage infrastructure – thereby making its storage software-defined.
Overcoming Downtime Data Growth and Slow Performance
Hanover reports that with DataCore SANsymphony-V deployed in a synchronous mirror configuration it has realized continuous uptime through with its high-availability storage and has significantly reduced the time it takes to provision storage and systems. According to Null “DataCore keeps both our users and patients happier because of high systems’ availability. Moreover with DataCore we have been able to simplify management and reduce the total cost of ownership of the entire storage infrastructure.”
Hanover originally started a number of years back with a single DataCore installation in one data center. Over the years the hospital added synchronous mirroring that stretched storage availability between its two on-campus data centers. DataCore SANsymphony-V now serves as a unified storage services platform across the entire multi-site infrastructure. In particular it is relied upon extensively for various mission-critical enterprise and clinical applications. Examples of these include the hospital’s Healthcare BI reporting platforms clinical middleware medical dictation and transcription services and Citrix XenApp among others.
Null adds “We get very impressive performance and bandwidth throughput for the amount of VM servers and applications we are hosting on our environment. Plus we have improved storage utilization since we are able to over-provision storage by about sixty percent meaning we are more efficient in our ability to meet the growth and cost demands for more capacity.”
Furthermore the IT team wanted to deploy a Voice over IP (VOIP) telephony application and wanted the same “always up always on” capability. “After doing some research what we came up with was to deploy DataCore – but in this instance use the product in another way altogether. In this case Hanover deployed DataCore Virtual SAN which used virtualized storage controllers inside of a VMware ESX host” stated Null. “That solution had far fewer requirements than Virtual SAN from VMware.”
Hanover Hospital is an independent not-for-profit community hospital and part of Hanover HealthCare PLUS network of services. The hospital is located in Hanover Pennsylvania. The hospital has approximately 1400 staff and 93 beds across 15 buildings. Hanover manages 6000 patient visits 30000 ER visits 190000 outpatient visits 600000 lab tests 90000 imaging scans and over 600 births.
Hanover Hospital – Addressing the Top 3 Storage Challenges in Healthcare
To learn more please view our recorded webinar featuring Hanover Hospital “Addressing the Top Three Storage Challenges in Healthcare”. It highlights the challenges faced by healthcare IT departments such as maintaining 24x7x365 operations managing explosive data growth and ensuring the highest performance from critical applications.
In the webinar Hanover Hospital’s Douglas Null senior technical architect-MIS department discusses his firsthand experience and best practices using DataCore’s software-defined storage.
A full case study on the deployment at Hanover Hospital is also available:
Hanover Attains ‘Always on Always up’ Availability to Critical Data across Sites with DataCore SANsymphony-V Software-Defined Storage and Virtual SAN
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