HPE 488100-B21 Product Data Sheet
Objective
Meet customer demand and ensure
future business by oering managed
cloud services
Approach
HAVL already had HPE product
experience and a good relationship
with HPE after many years as an
HPE reseller. It only considered
HPE solutions and chose HPE
ConvergedSystem 700x af ter
seeing product demonstrations
Case Study
HAVL builds best-of-breed
managed cloud solution
HPE ConvergedSystem 700x supports a vital
new business venture for Dutch oice and
IT solutions provider
IT Matters
• Uses virtualisation to roll out new
servers in minutes rather than weeks,
providing flexible capacity planning for
this new business strand
• Provides a turn-key, converged
combination of HPE servers, storage,
networking and management software
• Supplies vital high availability with
backup data capable of being restored
in 15 minutes
Business Matters
• Reduces cost due to real-time capacity
planning, thin provisioning and
tiered storage
• Delivers Proactive Support and ease of
management which are vital as HAVL
launches this new service
• Provides the company with a scalable
new business strand to support
growth and future success
To meet growing customer
demands and grow its
business, Dutch oice
solutions company HAVL
decided to launch a
managed cloud computing
service. Since this was
a new and important
development for the
business, it needed a
world-class solution to
reduce risk and ensure
excellence. It chose to
implement the HPE
ConvergedSystem 700x
converged platform and is
already seeing the technical
and business benefits.
Challenge
Customer demand
Eighty years ago, Netherlands-based HAVL
was launched to sell basic oice supplies,
but it has come a long way since those days
of paperclips and desks. Thirty years ago
it branched out into IT solutions and now
it sells a whole work concept. Het Nieuwe
Werken (The New Work) is a total solution
designed to make working life better
for employees. It includes everything a
company needs from interior design
and training to oice equipment and,
of course, IT.
Located in the town of Tilburg, HAVL’s first
venture into IT was with Compaq, later
acquired by HPE. As an HPE reseller, it has a
long record of delivering HPE equipment
to a wide range of customers. HAVL’s
prolonged success relies on listening to its
customers, and recently they voiced some
strong messages.
Case study
HAVL
Industry
Oice and IT solutions
“Meeting customer demands by creating our own cloud with
HPE ConvergedSystem 700x was important to the future of the
company. If we hadn’t done this, it’s possible that HAVL would
not exist in ten years time.”
— Sander van Dijk, IT engineer and consultant, HAVL
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“We got a lot of requests from customers
who wanted to compare the costs of
buying new equipment against moving to
cloud computing,” says Sander van Dijk,
IT engineer and consultant with HAVL.
“Once they had examined the dierence
in costs, a lot of businesses decided that a
managed cloud solution was good for them.”
HAVL director, Ard Smulders adds: “The
delivery of managed cloud services is a
natural extension of HAVL’s ICT portfolio,
but we needed a world-class solution to
reduce risk and ensure excellence.”
Solution
Proactive support
HAVL decided to implement an HPE
ConvergedSystem 700x solution to support
its HPE CloudSystem environment. This
consists of an HPE ProLiant BladeSystem
c7000 Platinum Enclosure with seven
HPE ProLiant BL460c Gen8 server
blades running the HPE Matrix Operating
Environment. A scalable HPE FlexFabric
10GB/24 port module is centrally managed
using HPE Intelligent Management Center
software to support its HPE CloudSystem
environment.”
HPE 3PAR StoreServ Storage 7200/7000
provides 48 disks, each with 450GB capacity,
thin provisioning and tiered storage. HAVL
uses RAID 5 storage technology to deliver a
total networked storage capacity of 14TB.
“We looked only at Hewlett Packard
Enterprise because as a reseller, we
have always had a good experience with
them,” explains van Dijk. “HPE gave us a
demonstration and we already had some
experience of HPE solutions. We had a good
feeling about HPE and our past experience
had been good, so why change it?”
Since HAVL is not a highly specialised IT
company, good product support for the
converged infrastructure was important so it
chose a three-year Proactive Care Service.
The resources in its cloud are virtualised
using the Microsoft® Hyper-V 2012 core
hypervisor with HPE Virtual Machine
Manager, HPE Data Protection Manager and
HPE Operations Manager. The minimum
operations environment for new virtual
machines is Windows® 2008 R2 or higher
but when customers are migrating from
their own environments to the HAVL cloud
then it’s possible to migrate to virtual
machines running Windows 2003 or higher.
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