Case Study: CreditPlus Bank achieves 25% higher I/O and seamless SAN replacement with StorMagic SvSAN

StorMagic SvSAN ticks all the boxes and replaces physical SAN at German bank CreditPlus

CreditPlus Bank, a Germany-based consumer credit bank and subsidiary of Crédit Agricole, faced imminent capacity limits on its physical SAN that would have required taking storage offline to expand — an unacceptable option for production systems. To avoid downtime they evaluated and trialed StorMagic’s SvSAN as an interim solution and product for permanent use.

StorMagic implemented SvSAN after a successful proof of concept and migrated the entire production environment to SvSAN in two weeks with no downtime; SvSAN replaced the physical SAN and became the permanent solution. The deployment delivered measurable gains — a minimum 25% increase in I/O performance — and now supports roughly 600 virtual machines across four SvSAN production clusters, improving availability and cost-effectiveness for CreditPlus Bank.

CreditPlus Bank

Torsten Kurz

CISO and Head of Team IT-Infrastructure and Systems