Case Study: ZaneRay achieves fast, enterprise-grade VM backups, rapid restores and 99.99% uptime with OpenText Virtual Machine Explorer

Micro Focus® Virtual Machine Explorer allows Montana-based web design and e-commerce consultant to back up and restore virtual machines fast

ZaneRay is a 23-person web design and e-commerce hosting firm based in Whitefish, Montana, with a colocation facility in Spokane, Washington, that manages more than 70 VMware vSphere virtual machines for high-profile outdoor brands. After upgrading to VMware 6.0, backup and restore attempts began failing up to one-third of the time, putting site availability, PCI compliance, and 99.99% uptime commitments at risk and creating an urgent need for a secure, fast, and reliable VM backup solution.

ZaneRay implemented Micro Focus Virtual Machine Explorer Enterprise (running two instances) to perform twice-monthly full backups and daily incremental backups. Incrementals complete in under 30 minutes (capturing ~100 GB of changes), full VMs can be recovered in as few as three minutes, and the company gained affordable, enterprise-grade encryption, easy web-based management, and the ability to meet SLAs and PCI requirements.

ZaneRay

Brennan Sandusky

Systems Director and Senior Software Engineer