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To accommodate the growing popularity of sharing and watching video on

smartphones, iTSherpa adopted Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes and built a private

cloud platform with HCI.

Building a private cloud platform with

All-Flash vSAN Ready Nodes

Improving proposal power and

service level with HCI

SolutionsBusiness Challenges

Business Results

Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes

- Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd

- Dell EMC PowerEdge R440

- Dell EMC Networking S4048T-ON

Enterprise Support

- Dell EMC ProSupport Plus

Development of the infrastructure to accommodate the growing

demand for smartphone video delivery using HCI

Reduction in cloud service costs, which enabled lower service fees

Provisioning of VM in as little as 30 minutes, which helped achieve

rapid service development and improve quality

The company can offer flexible services tailored to

customer requirements, and proposal speed has improved

by 20-30 percent

Erasure Coding (RAID 6) on an all-flash configuration

provides redundancy while also ensuring sufficient capacity

and speed

The company can offer

flexible services tailored

to customer requirements

due to improved proposal

speed

percent

improvement

Provisioning of VM in as

little as 30 minutes

enabled rapid

development of

services

Several

months

As little as

minutes

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Software development | Japan

iTSherpa utilized physical servers and IaaS cloud services to

provide service packages incorporating social media, live streaming,

and EC functions to its customers through an all-in-one service

infrastructure. However, performance and cost issues in the service

caused the company to look for a flexible virtualization platform with

high-availability features.

Summary of content (4 pages)

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Building a private cloud platform with All-Flash vSAN Ready Nodes Improving proposal power and service level with HCI To accommodate the growing popularity of sharing and watching video on smartphones, iTSherpa adopted Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes and built a private cloud platform with HCI.
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iTSherpa Co., Ltd (iTSherpa) provides the social media package launching a service to deliver video to PCs 10 years ago, the number GLAS, live-streaming systems, and e-commerce systems, and also of servers began to increase, eventually reaching several hundred. develops a variety of applications.
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“Our HCI built with Dell EMC PowerEdge servers exhibited a high level of performance in all benchmarks. Erasure Coding on an all-flash configuration provides redundancy while also ensuring sufficient storage capacity.” Hideyuki Ezaki Infrastructure Service Department iTSherpa Co., Ltd. verification problems in the first build, we turned to Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes, which were released after the G1 build.” The G2 HCI used six Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd servers and featured an all-flash SSD configuration.
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Future infrastructure expansion for higher availability iTSherpa is also investigating the development of a third-generation HCI to keep up with newer vSAN versions and functions, as well as an upgrade of G1 and G2 to newer versions. “Although we haven’t yet had to ask for support, as Dell EMC provides one-stop support for both hardware and VMware, we know it’s always available.