Globalization 2.0 | Indonesian Fintech Company Achieves VMware-to-ZStack with ZStack Cloud

An Indonesian fintech company provides digital transformation services to over 100 financial institutions, focusing on core banking, mobile banking, and digital financial ecosystems. As the business expanded, the customer’s existing multiple versions of VMware virtualization platforms faced challenges such as complex management, lack of backup mechanisms, and high costs. The core requirement was to achieve VMware-to-ZStack, build a highly available architecture, improve resource management efficiency, and ensure data security and compliance.

The customer chose the ZStack Cloud platform to gradually implement VMware-to-ZStack and build a highly available architecture with multiple management nodes to ensure business continuity and achieve a financial core business SLA of 99.99%. The ZStack Cloud platform also unified the management of the existing multiple versions of VMware platforms and repurposed existing servers and SAN storage to enhance resource utilization.

Additionally, the customer needed to establish VM-level backup and disaster recovery systems to meet the financial industry’s requirements for Recovery Time Objectives (RTO) and achieve tenant isolation through the ZStack Cloud platform to meet customer data security and localization compliance needs. Finally, the customer reduced management complexity, improved operational efficiency, and reduced fault response times through unified monitoring and automation tools provided by the ZStack Cloud platform.

Solution Architecture

ZStack designed a comprehensive cloud transformation solution for the Indonesian fintech company, covering key areas such as highly available architecture, unified management of heterogeneous resources, data security, and compliance.

Highly Available Architecture: Deployed multiple management node HA to eliminate single points of failure; enabled VM HA functionality to automatically migrate services in case of physical host failure.

Unified Management of Heterogeneous Resources: Repurposed dozens of old servers into a resource pool, seamlessly managed VMware clusters through the ZStack Cloud platform, migrated services like OA and mobile banking using v2v tools; integrated SAN storage as the main storage pool providing high-performance block storage, repurposed NAS devices for backup storage.

Data Security and Compliance: Utilized the backup module capability of the ZStack Cloud platform to achieve agentless VM backup, supporting point-in-time recovery; created independent VPCs for each financial institution through the tenant management module, meeting Indonesian financial data localization requirements.

Customer Benefits

Cost Reduction and Compatibility: Supported Intel and AMD architecture compatibility to repurpose old hardware, avoiding vendor lock-in, reducing TCO by 40%; gradually implemented VMware-to-ZStack, unified management of multiple versions of VMware virtualization platforms.

Stability Verification: Multi-node HA architecture supported 24/7 operation, actual fault-free duration exceeded 300 days; lightweight deployment (completed in 30 minutes), seamless upgrade capability reduced business interruption risk.

Business Efficiency Enhancement: New business launch cycle reduced from weeks to minutes, supporting daily million-level transactions for banking services; key business VMs achieved minute-level backup and second-level recovery, ensuring financial business disaster recovery.

Intelligent Operations and Ecosystem Compatibility: Unified monitoring dashboard displayed real-time resource utilization and VM health status, improving operational efficiency by 40%; native agentless backup provided financial-grade RPO/RTO assurance.

ZStack supports the efficient and stable operation of hundreds of Southeast Asian financial institutions by providing products and services to the Indonesian fintech company. Committed to offering localized cloud services to global customers, ZStack’s cloud platform supports nine languages and covers more countries and regions, aiding global enterprises in their digital transformation. In the future, ZStack will continue to expand into global markets, providing efficient, flexible, and secure cloud computing solutions to more enterprises, driving the global digitalization process.