One of Europe's largest tyre manufacturers replaced a single-point-of-failure storage setup with a Syneto High Availability cluster, fast Fibre Channel shared storage for VMware, and a separate replication target for genuine Disaster Recovery.
Marangoni's story began in 1945, when the Marangoni brothers started a retreading business in Corso Bettini, Italy. Through the following decades the group grew into Fratelli Marangoni and Marangoni Pneumatici, opened manufacturing plants worldwide, and established Marangoni spa as the parent company in 1984. Today it remains one of the largest European tyre manufacturers, spanning machinery and technology, retreading machinery, retreaded tyres, industrial tyres, car tyres, tyre distribution and even green energy produced from scrap rubber.
Marangoni already ran a shared IBM storage that provided space for virtual machines on VMware servers — but it had no High Availability. The company's operations require constant uptime, so every time the shared storage went down, business ground to a halt. Data access was also slow, costing time and money in an era of fast decisions and worldwide interconnectivity. Critically, all backups were kept on a single appliance, creating a single point of failure that could bring down the entire data center, with backups and retrieval that were slow and complex.
The existing IBM shared storage had no High Availability feature. Every time it went down, the VMware servers — and the business that depended on them — were brought to a stand-still.
Keeping storage up was not enough — access speeds lagged too. In an age of fast decisions and worldwide interconnectivity, slow reads and writes cost Marangoni both time and money.
All backups lived on a single appliance — a single point of failure that could bring down the entire data center. True DR requires data saved on separate hardware from the main storage.
The existing infrastructure could save and retrieve data, but not quickly. Marangoni needed backups that completed fast and restored in mere seconds, with no downtime.
Marangoni chose the Syneto Unified Storage High Availability solution. Two 2U, 8-bay heads run Storage OS and control the cluster, paired with a 24-bay JBOD equipped with 6 SSDs configured to cache "hot" reads and significantly speed up ESX data access. A separate Syneto Unified Storage acts as the replication target, so backups live on different hardware from the production cluster — the foundation of true Disaster Recovery.
Reads and writes travel over Fibre Channel with iSCSI. Connectivity uses a unique Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) proxy that enables active-standby access to the LUNs — added to Storage OS specifically for high-speed VMware integrations.
Two Unified Storage appliances run active/passive and monitor each other over a heartbeat interface. If one fails, the other immediately takes over so data is always available — guaranteeing Business Continuity.
A third Syneto Unified Storage with 16 bays receives fast, incremental backups from the HA cluster. Thanks to their incremental nature, retrieval is fast and rollback takes seconds — and any disaster affecting the cluster leaves the data intact on this separate appliance.
Syneto engineers worked with Marangoni's IT to tune backup replication for more speed. Backup services migrate between cluster heads so they are always available, and the HA feature was modified to support backups over 10Gbit ethernet.
With Storage OS and Unified Storage in place, Marangoni gained an agile, cost-effective High Availability cluster with high data redundancy and a powerful Disaster Recovery solution — the fast, versatile and reliable storage the business required.
Syneto Storage OS and Unified Storage delivered an agile, cost-effective High Availability cluster with high data redundancy alongside a powerful Disaster Recovery solution — giving Marangoni the fast, versatile and reliable storage their business required.
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This study covers how Syneto delivered High Availability clustering, high-speed shared storage over Fibre Channel for VMware, and Disaster Recovery via backup and replication to a separate Syneto appliance for Marangoni Tyres.
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