Product Data Sheet / Brochure

For more than half a century, IndianOil has
been helping to meet the country’s energy
needs. Its 34,000-strong workforce today is
responsible for delivering over 49 per cent
of India’s petroleum products market share,
31 per cent of national refining capacity, and
71 per cent of downstream sector pipelines
through capacity.
IndianOil’s critical business backbone – its
corporate data centre – caters to almost 700
locations in every corner of India. Its SAP
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system
had swelled one hundredfold from its initial
150GB size when it was commissioned in
2001 to 15TB by the beginning of 2014.
Unstoppable exponential growth of data
Besides ensuring suicient storage space,
the ERP system has to provide optimum
response time to thousands of concurrent
users and satellite systems so they can carry
out the business activities in an eicient
manner.
The exponential growth in database size was
putting enterprise IT infrastructure under
severe pressure from cost, manageability,
performance, and scalability perspectives.
As a result, the company found itself
grappling with the issues of higher storage
costs, deterioration in response times, and
massive backup/restore time limitations.
The unstoppable increase in data volume
meant that these elements were all
combining to create multiple layers of
complexity in managing the data centre that
was running online business transactions on
the SAP ERP system.
Satisfying demand for applications and
analytics
Timing was critical because IndianOil found
itself increasingly having to anticipate and
satisfy the requirement to run an increasing
number of applications and faster analytics.
In mid-2014, IndianOil took a proactive
position and with support partner, Hewlett
Packard Enterprise (HPE), began planning
the best approach to address this challenge.
IndianOil general manager IT, Deepak
Agarwal, explains: “New business
requirements such as analytics need high
storage space, which was not available in
the existing storage due to the big database
size. The need to increase storage space
every time for new requirements had to be
continuously met by augmenting hardware
as well as performance tuning of SAP/
Oracle software. Such a process had adverse
impacts on operational response time and
eiciency, plus serious cost implications.”
Agarwal notes that the database response
time had also deteriorated to about 60 per
cent of the total SAP ideal response time:
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“This was a very complex job in view of limited storage resources. Due to
the huge database size of 15TB, the space needed to be created by moving
other databases and reconfiguring the storage as per SAP requirement
without disturbing the complete landscape. HPE planned and carried out
the complete job perfectly.”
– Rajiv Chawla, executive director, Corporate Information Systems, IndianOil