Active Disaster Recovery on VMware on OVHcloud Hosted

Key Takeaways:

• Failovers designed for near-zero service degradation
• No egress fees for predictable, scalable pricing
• Dedicated, redundant storage with no shared infrastructure

Client:

Protecting member trust and financial data integrity

The Federal Credit Union ("the Credit Union") is a U.S. financial institution serving over 200,000 members, with a mission-critical focus on data integrity and member trust. The Credit Union relies on a trusted Managed Service Provider (MSP) to deliver compliant, reliable cloud infrastructure. The MSP leverages VMware on OVHcloud Hosted Private Cloud to help ensure constant system readiness and availability, making a robust Active Disaster Recovery (DR) solution central to the services it delivers.

Challenges: 

Credit Union required a high-performance DR solution designed to maintain availability with near-zero service degradation during failovers. The MSP needed a cloud partner with predictable pricing to avoid the surprise costs common with hyperscaler providers. The solution also required infrastructure that met rigorous compliance certifications to help ensure complete financial data integrity and trust.

“With some big cloud providers, you have no idea how to budget for the service. You might as well open your wallet and let them take out what they want each month.”

 — Managed Service Provider (MSP) Partner

Solution: 

The MSP partnered with OVHcloud to implement an active DR solution on Managed VMware vSphere on OVHcloud Hosted Private Cloud, featuring NSX and vSAN, preserving existing VMware tooling and workflows with no re-platforming required. The platform offers storage flexibility through a combination of NFS datastores ranging from 3 TB to 36 TB for scalable shared storage, and all-flash NVMe drives for high-performance vSAN deployments, making it well-suited for a wide range of workload requirements, from general-purpose virtualization to latency-sensitive applications. This is backed by double-redundant physical servers and a fully redundant 10 Gbps network.

As a Broadcom Pinnacle Partner, OVHcloud provides access to the latest VMware capabilities and licensing support, with flat-rate pricing that removes the unpredictability common with hyperscaler providers. The solution supports DR testing at any time, maintaining system readiness and compliance, and scales easily to accommodate new workloads on the familiar VMware stack.

Results:  

The Active DR solution, built by the MSP on OVHcloud, gives the Credit Union a more resilient foundation for disaster recovery. Failovers are designed to run seamlessly, supporting service continuity for over 200,000 members. DR testing can be conducted at any time, supporting ongoing system readiness and compliance. SOC 2 + NIST attestation, ISO 27001 certification, and PCI DSS Level 1 compliance from OVHcloud provide the audit-ready security posture required by a federally chartered financial institution.

For the MSP, flat-rate pricing on OVHcloud removes the unpredictability common with hyperscaler providers, offering a reliable cost model to pass on to clients. The underlying infrastructure scales to support new workloads on the familiar VMware stack, giving the MSP a platform to grow its practice without changing the technology its clients depend on.