Case Study: National Disaster Management Centre achieves 24x7x365 availability and rapid VM recovery with Veeam Availability Suite

National Disaster Management Centre Puts Availability and Safety First with Veeam and HP

The National Disaster Management Centre (NDMC) in South Africa, which coordinates national preparedness and emergency response, was hampered by a legacy tape-based backup for VMware vSphere that frequently failed or delayed, offered poor monitoring and limited visibility, lacked integrated replication, and could take days to restore VMs—jeopardizing its ability to deliver 24x7x365 availability and meet recovery objectives.

By deploying Veeam Availability Suite with HP StoreServ snapshots, NDMC gained fast, frequent backups with minimal production impact, verified recoverability via SureBackup, built-in replication and instant failover, granular restores with Veeam Explorer, and real-time monitoring and dashboards. The result: restorations that now take minutes instead of days, deep visibility into the backup infrastructure, and reliable onsite and offsite protection for 3TB of virtual and 2TB of physical data to meet its availability and DR requirements.

National Disaster Management Centre

Takusani Rasivhaga

Systems Administrator