Elgas is an energy company specializing in the sale and delivery of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). It is Australia\u2019s largest supplier of LPG to homes and businesses, operates the largest LPG storage facility in Australia and has more than 40 service centres across the country.<\/p>\n
THE CHALLENGE<\/p>\n
Elgas has been quick to see the advantages that virtualization could offer its business. Jeremy Barton, software analyst and programmer at Elgas, explains: \u201cWe\u2019re relatively experienced with using VMs so we were already well-versed in the benefits they have over physical servers.\u201d\u00a0 When the business decided to virtualize its Windows environment, Jeremy realized they needed to reconsider the business\u2019s backup strategies as well. He says: \u201cWe had trialled and approved the use of Hyper-V
\nfor virtualizing the majority of our Windows environment. In order to use the virtual machine infrastructure in a production environment, we needed to have a solid backup plan in place.\u201d<\/p>\n
THE SOLUTION<\/p>\n
During their trials of the Hyper-V virtualization platform, the Elgas team designed a backup plan that would meet its immediate requirements and then searched the market for a solution that would help deliver this plan. One of the solutions Elgas considered was the VM Backup solution from Altaro. Altaro VM Backup is an easy-to-use, fast and reliable backup solution designed to take the hassle out of backing up Microsoft Hyper-V virtual machines.
\n\u201cAltaro provides a very comprehensive package and we realized that using Altaro would enable us to put in
\nplace our backup plan at a very reasonable cost.\u201d<\/p>\n
THE BENEFITS<\/p>\n
\u201cThe support team were quick to respond to the few queries we have during the installation process, and we
\nhave found some features extremely useful. For instance, the offsite storage capabilities have proven to be a good
\nreason for selecting Altaro.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Altaro VM Backup solution enables users to replicate backups for disaster recovery protection, either to an offsite location, such as a remote office, via an Internet connection (with optimized transfer speeds through
\nWAN Acceleration) or by enabling drive swap rotation on selected drives.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese full-featured and flexible backup options have benefitted Elgas.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe \u2018seed to disk\u2019 option has also proven to be quite useful when being applied over some of our slower links.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Altaro solution is very comprehensive and has worked well for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
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