Toyota Motor Vietnam Ensures Business Continuity with Synology Backup Solutions

As one of the world's leading manufacturing corporations, Toyota has been steadily expanding its business over the years. In Vietnam, it operates one of Southeast Asia's primary automobile manufacturing plants, producing tens of thousands of vehicles annually.

This growth in production scale has resulted in the need for more data storage for operation services and crucial data backups. However, as their IT system's capacity increased to hundreds of terabytes, the expansion had become a notable financial burden for the business.

Ensuring the continuous operation of their production system was crucial to maintaining their reputation and place in the market. To safeguard their data from potential threats like ransomware, natural disasters, and human errors, Toyota Motor Vietnam sought a disaster-recovery solution. This would involve maintaining backups in a different location to ensure business continuity in the face of unforeseen events. They needed a more comprehensive storage solution that could reduce their IT infrastructure costs and offer enhanced storage capabilities for daily operations and data protection. This is where Synology came in.

After assessing options from different providers in the market, Toyota Motor Vietnam conducted a trial of Synology's system and was impressed with its capabilities. This included solutions for backing up data at their headquarters, providing instant snapshot protection, and ensuring the availability of their file servers. Additionally, Synology proved instrumental in increasing the scalability of its entire infrastructure to accommodate future storage expansion.

At the company headquarters, they run several services on multiple VMs for daily operations. To keep these data secure and on-premises, they utilized Synology Active Backup for Business to back up their entire 80TB virtual machine cluster to Synology's petabyte-scale storage, SA3410, which is designed for growing storage needs.

To provide an extra layer of data protection, Toyota Motor Vietnam implemented additional daily offsite snapshots using Synology Snapshot Replication. Five identical 4-bay Synology RackStation units were set up at remote branches to serve as replication targets for data from the VM backup server. Immutable snapshot technology was also employed to mitigate security risks and manual failures.

To guarantee optimal operational performance and high availability (HA) for their essential data, Toyota Motor Vietnam deployed Synology's UC SAN server and expansion units as their corporate storage server. This active-active SAN storage, with two independent controllers, is specifically designed to ensure uninterrupted operations in critical environments, addressing the unique demands of Toyota's production line.