Case Study: OSI Foods achieves 90% downtime reduction and high-availability VMware storage with DataCore Software SANsymphony

DataCore’s software-defined platform nourishes OSI Food’s European data centres

OSI Food Solutions, a global supplier to major food retailers, faced performance and availability problems as it rolled out a Europe-wide ERP (Microsoft Dynamics NAV) and consolidated servers under VMware. To provide resilient, high‑performance shared storage and support just‑in‑time logistics across multiple subsidiaries, OSI deployed DataCore’s SANsymphony software-defined storage platform.

DataCore implemented a mirrored SANsymphony infrastructure integrated with VMware vSphere, providing synchronous mirroring, auto-failover, auto-tiering and central management across European sites. The deployment eliminated storage-related downtime (downtimes cut by 90%), consolidated storage across hardware generations (24 TB SAS per data center/node), supports ~95 VMs on four ESX hosts in Günzburg, and delivered cost savings, easier upgrades and predictable performance across OSI’s European environment. DataCore continues to be the company standard for storage virtualization.

OSI Foods

Wolfgang Allgäuer

OSI Foods