Bottlenecks drive Melbourne MSP Zeara from three-tier to Nutanix

Melbourne-based managed service provider Zeara has left its hosting provider Rackspace and ditched three-tier architecture to avoid bottlenecks.

The company chose to replace its Dell EMC rig with hyperconverged infrastructure from Nutanix, which it has installed in Equinix's ME1 facility.

The switch, which comprised 18-terabytes and 140 virtual machines for more than 60 clients, was completed with less than 12 hours of downtime without any ongoing issues.

“We have increased our capabilities, partnered with the best and can now offer managed infrastructure running on Nutanix, DR with Rubrik and Security with Webroot,” added Zeara sales director Daniel Keleher.

Zeara runs VMware ESXi on the Nutanix platform, with Juniper for networking, Veeam and Rubrik for backup and disaster recovery and Webroot for endpoint security.

The previous EMC storage "was becoming a bottleneck for us and our services. We wanted to move away from the three-tier architecture so we weren’t reliant on one piece of equipment," said a Zeara spokesperson.

"Rackspace were a great partner for many years, however we wanted to offer our customers greater flexibility and self managed allowed us to do so."

The company praised the "simplicity and ease of management of hypercovergence and the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud".

“Nutanix has made the management of our platform much more efficient. We are no longer reliant on one piece of equipment.” said Zeara technical director Matt Keleher.

Zeara is based in Melbourne and includes former Southern Cross Computer Systems managing director Mark Kalmus on its advisory board.