Case Study
Pete Lien & Sons deployed a Fujitsu hyper-converged server/storage cluster, increasing performance by 50 percent
Pete Lien & Sons deployed a Fujitsu hyper-converged server/storage cluster, increasing performance by 50 percent
At a glance Country: United States Industry: Mining Founded: 1944 Website: petelien.com Challenge Pete Lien & Sons’ existing storage and server cluster had been in place for five years and was reaching end of life. Performance was suffering and it was prone to failure. The company wanted to find an affordable solution that could scale with the company. Solution Pete Lien & Sons worked with Fujitsu partner Golden West Technologies to configure four FUJITSU Server PRIMERGY RX2540 with hybrid 1TB SSD memory and ten additional 1.8TB disc drives as a four-node cluster. This runs Windows Server 2016 with Storage Spaces Direct, which provides reliable, scalable, software-defined resources. Benefit ¦ Application performance has increased by 50 percent, enabling users to be mor