Zhihu Railway Equipment Co., Ltd.

Overview

Zhihu Railway Equipment Co., Ltd.

Country: China

Industry: Railway Equipment / Manufacturing

Solution: i2VP Agentless Backup & i2Backup Disaster Recovery Platform

Zhihu Railway faced a rapidly growing and increasingly complex IT architecture, including SQL Server, Oracle, and other heterogeneous databases, as well as a large number of virtual machines deployed on VMware. To ensure information system security and meet regulatory requirements, the company decided to build a unified disaster recovery management platform to achieve dual protection for production data.

Customer Challenge

• Complex IT architecture — Mix of SQL Server, Oracle, and heterogeneous databases.
• Virtualized workloads — Large-scale VMware environment requiring reliable VM backup and recovery.
• Compliance & security — Needed to meet regulatory disaster recovery requirements.
• Dual protection — Required comprehensive coverage for both databases and virtualized systems.

I2 Solution

• Deployed i2VP agentless backup software for VMware virtual machines, enabling backup directly to i2Box without installing any agents on production systems. Backup and recovery are performed at the ESXi host layer.
• Implemented i2Backup for scheduled backups of AIX midrange servers, virtual machines, and critical applications, ensuring protection of both application and data layers.

Solution Effects

• Achieved seamless VM backup and recovery without impacting production systems.
• Ensured dual-layer protection through OS-level data replication and virtualization-level VM backup.
• Met regulatory requirements for disaster recovery compliance.
• Enhanced overall resilience and security of critical information systems in a complex environment.