Disaster Recovery Implementation for a leading Health Wellness Company.
ORGANIZATION
- A nutraceutical / health-ingredients company with operations in India (manufacturing & R&D) and global sales & distribution.
- Producer of science-validated, IP-protected “specialty actives” and botanical / plant-based extracts for use in dietary supplements, functional foods, and beverages.
- In-house R&D centers and manufacturing facilities which are compliant with regulatory / quality standards (e.g., cGMP, HACCP) for ingredients to global markets.
- Emphasize clinical trials / scientific validation for efficacy, safety, bioavailability of ingredients.
OBJECTIVE
- Risk of disruption in services delivered via in-housed various IP-protected applications to domestic & global customers.
- Loss of critical data for R&D regulatory compliance from multiple point of failure
- and natural disaster.
- To setup comprehensive data protection, availability and disaster recovery plan.
- Enable site-level disaster recovery with automation for the applications hosted on Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) at primary datacenter.
- Achieve RPO < 15 mins and RTO < 1 hr
- Minimize operational overhead with simplified management
SOLUTION
Nutanix HCI on AHV - a dedicated cluster featuring data protection & disaster recovery- Designing and deploying DR Solution.
- Consolidated compute + storage + virtualization + network on Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor.
- Single-pane management with Prism Central.
- Policy-based disaster recovery orchestration with per-application prioritize assignment.
- Copy efficient technology minimizing number of full data copy and bandwidth need.
- Asynchronous replication for critical apps and native snapshots / backup
- Automated IP address re-mapping
- Non-disruptive one-click failover/failback testing . Quick provision clones for dev/test, analytics.
- Failover & Failback across sites.
RESULT
- RTO reduced from more than 24 hrs to < 1 hr.
- RPO improved to 15 mins for critical applications.
- Cost savings vs. traditional DR by eliminating duplicate hardware stacks.
- Simplified management → one admin managing entire DR setup.
- Compliance achieved with secure recovery workflows & audit logs.
- Successful DR drills every quarter without impacting production.