Case Study: LCFC (Hefei) Electronics achieves 30% application performance boost, 10-second VM launches and 20% licensing savings with Nutanix

LCFC (Hefei) Electronics increases agility to meet surge in global demand

LCFC (Hefei) Electronics, a Lenovo subsidiary that manufactures roughly one in eight laptops worldwide, faced a sudden surge in demand as remote work and learning increased laptop sales. Its legacy three‑tier, on‑premises infrastructure struggled to scale and meet the heavy CPU, RAM, storage and IOPS demands of critical MES production and R&D applications, limiting agility and growth.

LCFC replaced the legacy stack with a Nutanix‑Lenovo hyperconverged solution (Nutanix AOS, AHV, Prism on Lenovo ThinkAgile HX appliances), deployed as two six‑node clusters in Hefei plus a three‑node cluster in Taipei. The new platform cut VM launch time to 10 seconds (53% faster), boosted MES and R&D performance by about 30%, enabled simple scale‑out and hybrid cloud integration, and delivered at least 20% savings in software licensing.

LCFC

Hong Xiaojun

Senior Engineer