Nakivo With VMware HA for Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare

Nakivo Inc., announced that The Social Welfare Organizations Administration Commission at the Ministry of Health and Welfare, Taiwan, – has its Nakivo Backup & Replication to protect their VMware environment.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare is responsible for the administration of the public health system, social welfare, affordable and universal health care, hospitals, immunization programs, disease prevention, as well as supervision and coordination of local health agencies in Taiwan.

The Social Welfare Organizations Administration Commission (SWOAC) at the Ministry of Health and Welfare was established in order to manage matters involving the administrative services of public health. The commission is comprised of 26 hospitals, 13 social welfare organizations, and more than 12,000 health professionals and social workers.

In order to accomplish the mission of health and well-being for all stakeholders, the IT infrastructure at the commission must be available at all times.

“We started to virtualize our environment in 2011 and up to this date we have over 200 VMware VMs. VMware VMs run hospital applications, such as PKI, HIS, Electronic official documentation, and others,” says Vincent Liu, system planner at SWOAC. Our virtual environment must be protected at all times, to avoid delay of appropriate arrangement of administrative services.”

“Previously, we practiced the traditional way to copy data to a USB disk from a VM. The recovery process was taking way too long because we had to re-install a VM and then restore data to that VM. For that reason, we decided to look for a more efficient way to protect and recover our VMware environment because we wanted to avoid downtime,” says Liu.

Backup & Replication was selected to improve data protection in the virtual environment.

“We needed a complete solution, not just a product. Nakivo Backup & Replication provides efficient VM backup and recovery features. Nakivo’s technical pre-sales department in Taiwan demonstrated to us how to instantly restore our VMware environment and we were sold on the solution,” says Liu.

Recovering the full VM from the backup is easy, as it is with Instant VM Recovery.

“We no longer need to manually recreate the VM and then restore data to the VM. With Nakivo Backup & Replication, the entire VM is recovered in exactly the same state as it was during the backup. Flash VM Boot recovers VMs ins, without waiting for full restore from backup files,” says Liu.

In addition to Instant VM Recovery, VM backup and data deduplication contributed to additional benefits.

“With Nakivo Backup & Replication, we can perform VM backup on schedule and considerably reduce storage space with global data deduplication. Another advantage is that the backup image is not tied to the database, so that we can transfer the backup image to other locations. We just need to deploy Nakivo Backup & Replication appliance to a remote site and the backup image can be restored immediately,” says Liu.

With fast VM backup and recovery, the commission has achieved HA across the entire environment. With Backup & Replication, the commission no longer spends extensive amount of time on VM recovery because Flash VM Boot enables instant recovery of VMware VMs. Moreover, VM backups can be conveniently scheduled and storage space reduction is beneficial.

“Everyday, we see money and time savings with Nakivo Backup & Replication. Now, we have achieved highly available data protection in our virtual environment,” says Liu.