Case Study: China Airlines achieves instant VM recovery, 60% storage savings, and a 30% VMware backup budget cut with NAKIVO Backup & Replication

NAKIVO helps China Airlines instantly recover VMs, Save 60% of Storage Space, cut VMware Backup Budget by 30%

China Airlines, a major Asian carrier with over 12,600 employees and more than 900 VMware VMs across two data centers, needed faster, reliable backups and instant recovery for mission‑critical systems (flight, booking, SQL, Exchange, etc.). Their legacy backup solution was slow, incompatible with the latest VMware upgrade, and couldn’t read data directly from disks—putting them at risk of costly downtime and data loss.

They deployed NAKIVO Backup & Replication as a virtual appliance and used Hot Add to read VM disks directly (bypassing the network), cutting weekly backup time by about 10 hours and meeting their daily backup window. Flash VM Boot enabled near‑instant VM recovery (saving at least 2 hours in emergencies), and global deduplication reduced backup storage by ~60%. Overall, management time fell 35% and the VMware backup budget dropped by 30%.

China Airlines

Stivan Chou

Representative