Case Study: Canadian Solar Solutions Inc achieves simplified management, faster application performance and peace of mind with Nutanix

Canadian Solar Solutions Inc. Envisions a Sunny Future with Nutanix

Canadian Solar Solutions Inc., a global solar energy provider, was running a fully virtualized VMware environment on aging NetApp storage and four physical servers supporting 100+ VMs. With only a two-person IT team, the company struggled with complex multi-vendor hardware, time-consuming management and outsourced upgrades, so they sought a simpler, more efficient infrastructure refresh.

They deployed Nutanix Enterprise Cloud (NX‑8035 in the primary data center and NX‑1365 at remote sites) integrated with VMware and managed through Prism Central, migrating ~100 VMs in just a few days and completing initial installs in under two hours. The result was noticeably faster application performance, centralized simple management, live non-disruptive upgrades, reduced rack space (14U to 4U) and power use, better vendor support, and more time and peace of mind for the IT team.

Canadian Solar Solutions Inc

Richard Briston

Senior Network & Infrastructure Specialist