Vinchin ensures business continuity and data protection for Club Atlético Boca Juniors

Vinchin helps Club Atlético Boca Juniors to easily deploy backup system and add RHV VM with agentless backup. The backup and recovery job wizards instruct administrators to start to create VM backup and migration jobs in minutes.

Sergio

Club Atlético Boca Juniors

Business Challenge

Boca Juniors Athletic Club is one of the most famous and successful football clubs in Argentina, located in the La Boca district of Buenos Aires, with La Bombonera stadium as its home ground. The club has 18 million fans, accounting for 40% of Argentina's total population. Besides football, Boca Juniors Athletic Club also participates in other domestic and international professional-level competitions, including basketball, volleyball, futsal, women's football, and handball, as well as boxing, judo, and more.

To efficiently run all kinds of business systems of the club, Boca Juniors uses digital systems to handle and store various types of data, including contract information, medical records, financial data, member information, etc. To enhance the efficiency of these business systems, the club introduced the advanced virtualization solution RHV. This makes the deployment of the business environment more flexible and improves the utilization of hardware resources. However, the new virtualization environment also brings new challenges. 

Compared to physical machines, virtual machines have indeed made daily maintenance work much easier, but in terms of data protection, the old backup solution is no longer suitable for virtual machines. "We chose virtual machines to better run our business systems, so we should also choose a data protection solution that is suitable for virtual environment," said Sergio in BOCA juniors. "The backup solution for physical machines cannot fully leverage the flexibility of virtual machines." Additionally, Boca Juniors' VMs run on different versions of RHV hosts, and administrators need to migrate the VMs from old version hosts to new version hosts for better operation.

Vinchin Solution

Vinchin provides agentless backup for virtual machines, so Boca Juniors doesn’t need to install any software on their RHV VMs. Instead, they can add the VMs running on the RHV hosts to Vinchin Backup & Recovery using the IP address, account, password, and other information of the RHV hosts. This fully leverages the flexibility and convenience of the virtual environment. In the user-friendly web interface provided by Vinchin, administrators can easily select the virtual machines they want to protect for bulk or individual backup. "Vinchin Backup & Recovery is the best VM backup software I've ever used and every feature is so convenient to use," said Sergio.

After adding the VMs to Vinchin Backup & Recovery, administrators can easily create backup tasks for the selected them under the instruction of the task wizard and add backup strategies such as scheduled backups, incremental backups, data compression, and data encryption. By configuring the management email, administrators can also receive emails about the completion status of each task, allowing them to easily monitor the backup system remotely.

For V2V needs, this is very simple for Vinchin. Compared to the traditional disk conversion method for V2V, Vinchin allows you to directly select a host of a different version or even a host on a different virtualization platform to restore the backup of the target VM directly onto them for migration. "I've had problems importing virtual machine disks many times before but Vinchin's migration is incredibly useful." said Sergio.

Result

Vinchin Backup & Recovery helps Boca Juniors easily backup RHV VMs to protect business data and ensure business continuity. With agentless backup, administrators can effortlessly add all VMs to the backup system. Using the task wizard, they can create virtual machine backup tasks and configure appropriate backup strategies for these tasks. Vinchin's cross-platform recovery feature also helps Boca Juniors easily perform V2V migrations. "Vinchin Backup & Recovery is exactly the backup solution I've been looking for, designed specifically for virtual environments," said Sergio. "This backup solution is truly effective."

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