Case Study: Morrisons achieves low-risk, performance-verified storage migration with Virtana VirtualWisdom

Reducing the Risks of Storage Migration

Morrisons, the UK supermarket chain, faced a high‑stakes storage migration while upgrading to HPE 3PAR arrays, new fibre SANs and replicated data centers; with more than 600 applications to move, the IT team needed to prove the new environment would meet or exceed current Oracle application performance and avoid business‑critical outages. To mitigate risk they engaged Virtana and its VirtualWisdom platform as an agnostic, instrumentation and monitoring solution.

Virtana’s VirtualWisdom provided system‑wide visibility, performance dashboards and baselines that uncovered several configuration and performance issues during pre‑deployment testing, enabled rapid root‑cause resolution, and verified post‑migration performance. As a result Virtana helped Morrisons successfully migrate 600+ applications, optimize the storage network, reduce CAPEX through capacity‑driven provisioning, and continuously monitor performance to reduce migration risk and demonstrate measurable gains to stakeholders.

Morrisons

Simon Close

Head of Storage