Overview
Shanghai Fosun High Technology Group Finance Co., Ltd.
Country: China
Industry: Financial Services / Corporate Finance
Solution: i2FFO Rapid Disaster Recovery Deployment + i2Availability High Availability
Shanghai Fosun Finance operates a complex IT environment built on the VMware virtualization platform, with its applications, middleware, and databases deployed across separate layers. As business demands grew, the existing scheduled-backup-only approach could no longer meet requirements for rapid system upgrades, uninterrupted operations, and elevated business continuity—especially for key systems such as investment and credit management platforms.
Customer Challenge
- System upgrades and hardware replacement difficulty — Scheduled backups could not align precisely with upgrade or replacement time points, making seamless migration challenging.
- Risk of business system downtime — Failures occurring within the virtualization environment could cause system interruptions without real-time protection.
- Higher business continuity requirements — Core systems such as investment and credit approval platforms required uninterrupted availability and rapid failover.
- Insufficient protection with scheduled backups — Traditional backups lacked real-time replication and could not ensure continuous protection of critical workloads.
I2 Solution
i2FFO Fast Failover & Rapid Recovery Deployment
- Enabled rapid construction of disaster recovery servers on the city-level virtualized DR platform.
- Provided scheduled backups with fast-boot capability, allowing business applications to quickly start on the DR environment when needed.
i2Availability High Availability
- Delivered real-time monitoring of business system health across the production VMware environment.
- Achieved automatic failover to the disaster recovery platform upon detecting service failures, VM issues, or application-level faults.
- Ensured real-time replication of production data to the DR servers, supporting continuous availability for core financial systems.
Solution Effects
- Ensured smooth system upgrades and hardware replacements without disrupting business operations.
- Enhanced continuity of key financial systems, including investment and credit evaluation platforms.
- Achieved standardized, automated disaster recovery with minimal manual intervention.
- Provided real-time protection across applications, middleware, and database layers.
- Strengthened enterprise-level resilience for all mission-critical VMware-based workloads.
