Case Study: LHM Dealerships enhances network reliability and application performance with VMware SD-WAN

Larry H. Miller Dealerships Supercharges Network Infrastructure with SD-WAN

LHM Dealerships, a large automotive dealership group with 65 locations across the western United States, was struggling with intermittent WAN loss, degraded connectivity, and slow or unavailable applications that hurt productivity and customer service. To address these issues, the company worked with VMware SD-WAN and its integration partner Lightstream to modernize its network and support mission-critical dealership systems like its DMS/ERP platform.

VMware SD-WAN was deployed across headquarters, data centers, and dealerships, using Dynamic Multipath Optimization to intelligently route traffic across MPLS, internet, broadband, and 4G/LTE links. The result was improved availability, redundancy, application performance, and visibility, with no infrastructure downtime reported, seamless failover to cellular backup during circuit outages, and easier troubleshooting without needing specialized in-house expertise.

LHM Dealerships

Michael Van Orden

Chief Information Officer