A Case study illustrating how Veeam has been adopted to provide a major financial institution a functional Disaster Recovery Solution. Clever Consulting resells and implements Veeam solutions in Italy offering a complete set up and assistance process.

1. PARTNER SUCCESS STORY
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Veeam Backup & Replication is Centerpiece
of Disaster Recovery Process at Major Italian
Financial Institution
“We guided Colt Technical Services in choosing Veeam Backup &
Replication as the centerpiece of the financial institution’s overall
disaster recovery solution. We have a company policy of only
deploying solutions we trust.”
— Gary McConnell, Managing Partner
Clever Consulting
The Business Challenge
When a major Italian financial institution asked Colt Technology Services to design
INDUSTRY: a disaster recovery (DR) site for its critical systems, the request included specific
requirements.
Finance First, the customer asked Colt to design an infrastructure that would replicate
Banking its critical services, including physical servers, virtual servers, and large network-
attached storage (NAS) systems, to an offsite DR location situated at least 100
kilometers from the primary production site.
COMPANY: Second, the customer asked Colt to implement a virtual server backup solution that
could be activated at the DR site if a disaster occurred. Therefore, data modified
Colt Technology during the DR activation would continue to be covered by nightly backups.
Services S.p.A. Third, implementation of the backup and replication solution must have
minimal impact on the customer’s production environment. For example, the
implementation must be unobtrusive, replication must occur during a specific
timeframe, replication traffic must be kept to at a minimum, and the management
of replication must not require excessive work on the part of the production staff. In
addition, activation of the DR site must abide by the recovery time objective set by
Located in Milan, Italy, Colt the customer.
Technology Services S.p.A. is
The Veeam Solution
part of the Colt Group, a leading
Colt contacted Clever Consulting, an Italy-based specialist in virtualization, high
European provider of managed
availability, disaster recovery, business continuity, and regulatory compliance
IT services. By delivering solutions.
integrated networking and
managed IT services, Colt “We recommended Veeam Backup & Replication for disaster recovery purposes,”
explained Gary McConnell, Managing Partner at Clever Consulting. “Our company
enables its customers to share,
policy is to recommend and deploy products that we trust. Veeam is a significant
process, and store their vital
player in our portfolio of solutions.”
business data.
Now Veeam Backup & Replication is responsible for nightly replication of VMware
servers from the customer’s production site to the DR site. “This process works
THE CHALLENGE: flawlessly and involves very little time on the customer’s behalf,” Gary said. “In
addition, both Colt and the customer are alerted to any issues via Veeam’s reporting
Design a disaster recovery solution, and alerting features. And the solution has been completely integrated into the
with backup and replication as the network management monitoring systems, thanks to Veeam’s SNMP alerts,” he
centerpiece. added.
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2. PARTNER SUCCESS STORY
The customer also uses Veeam Backup & Replication for failover testing. “Failover
can be tested, certified, and rolled back easily,” Gary explained. “Being able to pause
THE SOLUTION: replication, carry out a failover test, and then restart replication from the pre-failover
test snapshot is reassuring to the customer and ensures they don’t have long re-
Veeam Backup & Replication™
replication times after running a disaster recovery test.”
A backup job for all virtual machines in the DR site was created with Veeam as well.
RESULTS: “This will only be activated when a disaster recovery is invoked, thus protecting any
data changed during the DR activation,” he added. “Upon DR activation, the entire
• Nightly replication of production server farm will be backed up in a matter of minutes—without having to install
servers to DR site is flawless agents on the customer’s guest machines. This is a simple, straightforward, and fully
• Failover testing ensures short and automated process, with no agents to purchase, deploy, configure, update, and
concise re-replication if necessary monitor,” he concluded.
• Data changes are guaranteed
during DR activation
The Results
Nightly replication of production servers to DR site is flawless
Now the customer’s virtual servers are replicated to an off-site location each night.
This occurs within a designated timeframe and involves very little work for the
VEEAM PARTNER: production staff. If there is an issue, both Colt and the customer will receive emails
via Veeam’s reporting and alerting feature.
Clever Consulting Srl
www.clever-consulting.com Failover testing ensures short and concise re-replication if necessary
The customer also uses Veeam Backup & Replication to test, certify, and roll back
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failovers. This enables the customer to pause replication, test failover, and restart
replication from the pre-failover test snapshot, ensuring short re-replication times.
Founded in 2000 and Data changes are guaranteed during DR activation
headquartered in Milan, Italy, If the event of disaster, Veeam Backup & Replication will back up all virtual machines
at the DR site, protecting any data changed during the activation. Veeam provides
Clever Consulting designs,
agentless backups, making the process simple, straightforward, fully automated,
implements, and maintains and cost-effective.
high-availability solutions for
its customers’ disaster recovery About Veeam Software
and business continuity Veeam Software, a Elite-level VMware Technology Alliance Partner, develops
plans. With a specific focus innovative software to manage VMware vSphere. Veeam vPower™ provides
and vast experience in the advanced Virtualization-Powered Data Protection™ and is the underlying technology
financial and insurance sectors, in Veeam Backup & Replication™, the #1 VMware backup solution. Veeam ONE™
Clever Consulting develops provides a single solution to optimize the performance, configuration and utilization
infrastructure solutions in of VMware environments and includes: Veeam Reporter™—VMware capacity
planning, change management, and reporting and chargeback; Veeam Business
accordance with stringent
View™—VMware business service management and categorization; and a choice of
security rules and regulations. VMware monitoring options including the nworks Management Pack™—VMware
management in Microsoft System Center, the nworks Smart Plug-in™—VMware
management in HP Operations Manager, and Veeam Monitor™—framework-
independent VMware monitoring.
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