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Time savings for IT teams
Before Nutanix , Ungaretti and his team were using a three-tier environment , made up of the server , the SAN network and the storage . They needed one team to take care of the server and another to manage the SAN network and the storage .
Ungaretti is happy that others are as excited about Nutanix as he is . “ I totally believed in Nutanix ,” he said . “ They explained the solution very well and we felt a lot of confidence when we took the direct step to AHV . Now , it ’ s a path that I see everyone is going to follow .”
Next steps
“ With Nutanix , I don ’ t need those separate teams . One person can operate the whole environment on their own . The operation is easy and the interface is very user-friendly , so one team member can handle a cluster with three or one hundred nodes without much effort ,” said Ungaretti .
Solving legacy issues
Ungaretti also noted that they ’ re no longer experiencing many of the problems they faced with their legacy systems . “ Now we have Nutanix , troublesome issues in previous environments have been resolved ,” he said . “ Some great examples : the installation time of a virtual machine has been reduced by 75 % and server reboots now only take up to three seconds .”
Efficient customer service
One thing that stands out to Ungaretti and the Mercedes-Benz IT team is the customer service they ’ ve received from Nutanix . “ Their support has always been fantastic ,” said Ungaretti . “ I ’ ve opened a ticket on the web and in less than five minutes there was already an engineer talking to me on the phone to solve my problem . In this way , Nutanix is a step ahead of everyone else .”
Mercedes-Benz ’ s plan is to continue evaluating new technologies that will help them drive innovation throughout the business . Currently , they are considering Flow Networking and Nutanix ’ s network automation for cloud load transfer .
At Mercedes-Benz Brazil , a DevOps process with Nutanix has also been started . The system currently has four servers and the plans are to reach 80 .
Ungaretti explains more : “ With Nutanix , we can have a more agile development process to provide updates and new features in our apps quicker . All of these things greatly benefit but are invisible to the end-user .”
As Mercedes-Benz continues to innovate , Nutanix is proud to be by its side .
Leonel Oliveira , General Manager , Nutanix Brazil , said : “ We always want to do the best work possible for our customers , using all the power of technology we can offer to enhance their IT business . The Mercedes-Benz project is pioneering , a digital leap for new times , and we hope to grow even more .” p
Delivering on expectations
The Mercedes-Benz team has also been delighted to find that their Nutanix solution works just as they hoped it would . “ In the beginning we said , ‘ Let ’ s believe it and go with it ’,” explained Ungaretti . “ Everything that was promised to us was delivered . Fast customer support , the simplicity of the system – and what really impressed me is that everything that was mentioned before we switched exists and actually works .”
Further adoption of Nutanix within Mercedes-Benz
The implementation of Nutanix HCI was a pioneering project for Mercedes-Benz and at that time Brazil was the only country using the Nutanix hypervisor ( AHV ). Now , having seen the proven successful results , several other subsidiaries of the manufacturer are also interested in testing and using AHV .
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