Case Study: Röchling Automotive achieves 99.99% uptime and uninterrupted production with Stratus Technologies' Avance high-availability solution

Stratus Avance Software Makes High Availability And Virtualization Easy

Röchling Automotive, a supplier that produces door panels for around 2,000 vehicles per day at a 24/7 Wolfsburg plant, faced a critical IT challenge: its just-in-time, just-in-sequence production depended on uninterrupted data flow, and any server outage risked stopping the VW assembly line and incurring penalties. Their previous standby backup caused long failover times and data loss, requiring slow, error-prone database reconciliation and leaving only a narrow weekly maintenance window for fixes.

Röchling implemented Stratus Avance on two geographically separated high-performance x86 servers, providing continuous synchronization, integrated virtualization and automatic failover. The result was seamless, near-real-time protection (high availability in excess of 99.99%), fast database resynchronization, simpler remote administration, shorter maintenance cycles and lower cost/complexity than cluster or SAN-based alternatives—keeping production running without interruptions or data loss.

Röchling Automotive

Atilla Güner

System Administrator