Vinchin Enables HQHP to Reduce Virtual Machine Backup Costs by 50%

When multiple VMs fails, we can recover all the failed VMs by creating only one restore job. It not only has saved us a lot of time on creating job but also has improved our business-continuity. We choose Vinchin not only because they can provide us what we need, but also because their backup software is really stable and very easy to handle, and the truth is we have saved more than 50% cost by choosing Vinchin.

Lin Xue, IT Director

HQHP

Business Challenge

Founded on Jan 7th, 2005 and listed on the gem board of shenzhen stock exchange on June 11, 2015 (stock code: 300471), Huaqi Houpu Holding Co.,Ltd (HQHP) now has over 1,200 employees. Their business has covered new energy resources, clean energy, operation and supervision platform based on Internet +, cloud computing, big data analysis and other technologies.

HQHP moved to virtualization in 2012 and now has 10 ESXi 6.2 hosts and runs 50 VMs with CRM, PDM, ERP, EPC, Smart Card server as well as some other important applications. These applications play an irreplaceable role in the operation and sustainable production capacity of HQHP. However, due to the lack of reliable data backup mechanism, data loss and business interruption occur frequently. It is urgent to establish an effective data disaster recovery center

“For an information technology organization, all the factors that cause abnormal system downtime can be called disasters. If we take some disasters lightly as small probability events, we will face incalculable losses when they do occur” Says Lin Xue, IT director at HQHP, “We need a data protection solution that can back up our business systems and data as well as improve the business continuity, reliability and availability of our information systems.”

Vinchin Solution

“Installing Vinchin Backup & Recovery is a really easy thing. All we need to do is creating a new VM in our current virtualization infrastructure and install Vinchin software on it. Other backup software needs to be installed on OS (either Linux or Windows), so we need to consider the OS version, and make sure there already exists an OS in the VM, and probably the backup software needs to share the same OS with other applications, I don’t think that is safe.” Says Lin Xue.

Vinchin Backup & Recovery provides system-level protection for all the applications, files and database inside the VMs. When the business system in any VM fails, Vinchin Backup & Recovery can instantly recover the entire VM and take over the business in less than 2 minutes. “When multiple VMs fails, we can recover all the failed VMs by creating only one restore job. It not only has saved us a lot of time on creating job but also has improved our business-continuity.” Says Lin Xue.

Result

“Since implementing Vinchin Backup & Recovery, HQHP has dramatically improved VM backup efficiency. “ We choose Vinchin not only because they can provide us what we need, but also because their backup software is really stable and very easy to handle, and the truth is we have saved more than 50% cost by choosing Vinchin.”