Tintri VMstore Delivers a New Experience for Municipality of Stellenbosch

Customer Case Study

Stellenbosch Municipality provides services to a population of 3.8 million people across an area of around 900 km2. It covers a number of towns and hamlets, including Stellenbosch, the second oldest town in South Africa, which dates back to 1679 and has a rich heritage in wine production. It is home to the renowned University of Stellenbosch and has a strong business sector. The municipality is home to a disproportionately high number of corporate CEOs and the top ten richest individuals in South Africa reside in Stellenbosch. The municipality employs 1,200 permanent and contract employees to fulfil its duties, including providing water, sanitation, and refuse services to the local public.

Challenge

Existing EMC storage system was complex to manage and maintain
Poor scalability
Poor performance for the virtualized environment

Solution

Tintri VMstore

Results

Reduced storage management to almost zero
Improved confidence and belief in the performance of the storage environment
Enables the municipality to deliver a better service to users
Faster and more flexible management and creation of virtual machines

What Stellenbosch is Saying

There is no need to provision the disk when you need more storage. And you also don’t have to move the virtual machine to a faster disk. VMstore is intelligent enough to see what is on the virtual machine and move it to the appropriate disk without having to manually do it. The cherry on top was that the VMstore system would do some thinking for us and have some level of intelligence on its own.

-Elvino Williams