Case Study: Sport Chalet achieves 60% SAP performance boost and one-hour reports with Dell EMC and VMware

Sporting goods chain transforms SAP operations with EMC and VMware

Sport Chalet, a 54‑store full‑service sporting goods retailer, struggled with a fast‑growing SAP environment and slow, failure‑prone tape backups that hampered reporting and scalability. After evaluating alternatives, Sport Chalet standardized on a solution from Dell EMC (alongside VMware vSphere) using Dell EMC unified storage and backup products such as Avamar and NetWorker to address performance and data protection gaps.

Dell EMC replaced the legacy HP storage and tape systems and, together with VMware vSphere, enabled rapid virtualization (from ~10% to 65% in three months) and improved SAP performance by 60%. As a result, SAP reporting dropped from half a day to one hour, daily full backups were cut roughly in half, file‑server backups fell from 16 hours to about 20 minutes with Avamar NDMP, and provisioning and recovery times were dramatically faster—delivering clear, measurable business impact.

Sport Chalet

Jason Hart

Infrastructure Manager