Case Study: Grünenfelder SA achieves 10x faster data access and simplified IT management with VMware vSAN

Grünenfelder SA Optimized Performance Due to System Upgrade and Storage Virtualization

Grünenfelder SA is a family-owned logistics company in Quartino, Ticino, serving food and non-food customers across Switzerland with about 70 employees. Rapid growth strained its centralized IT environment—three internal servers running virtualized workloads—causing slow access to data and applications, unsupported storage hardware, high maintenance effort, and a need to simplify system management.

Working with partner 4IT Solutions, Grünenfelder replaced servers with Dell PowerEdge hardware, upgraded VMware to vSphere 6.5 and migrated storage to VMware vSAN, with testing and cutover completed in under a month and critical systems moved over a weekend. The result was dramatically improved performance (up to 10x faster data and application response), increased storage capacity and faster backups, unified management via vCenter, and built‑in disaster recovery—reducing administration overhead and supporting future growth.

Grünenfelder SA

Luca Bolla

IT Manager