Virtualization Platform Reuse + Expansion Practice for Thai Stationery & Office Equipment Distributor and B2B E-Commerce Service Provider

A leading Thai stationery and office equipment distributor and B2B e‑commerce service provider, whose core businesses include stationery retail chains and B2S bookstores, has invested hundreds of millions in building its own e‑commerce platform to support online growth. As digital transformation progressed, key business systems—such as email, CRM, OA, and the e‑commerce platform—placed greater demands on the stability, scalability, and cost efficiency of its virtualization infrastructure. Meanwhile, VMware’s shift to a subscription‑based licensing model introduced cost and sustainability challenges, including rising expenses, changes in support quality, and updates to the product roadmap. This drove the urgent need to establish a more flexible and cost‑effective replacement solution.  

The company chose ZStack ZSphere to complete the VMware-to-ZStack migration, using V2V tools to perform live migration of critical business systems—including email, CRM, OA, and e-commerce platforms—to the new platform, achieving seamless migration and unified resource management. ZStack ZSphere is compatible with existing x86 servers and centralized storage, and employs a “reuse + expansion” model to build an active-active cluster. This approach reduces Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) while significantly improving system reliability and resource utilization.

Customer Benefits  

Optimized Resource Utilization
Efficiently reused existing servers and centralized storage to enhance resource scheduling capabilities. ZStack ZSphere’s on-demand subscription model saved millions of Thai Baht in licensing costs. Resource utilization improved notably, ensuring faster system response during peak periods. 

Simplified Operations & Maintenance
ZStack ZSphere offers an operational experience consistent with VMware vSphere, enabling the IT team to get started without additional training. Its unified control plane integrates automated alerts and security policies, greatly reducing operational complexity and lowering annual maintenance manpower requirements. 

Faster Business Response
Thanks to intelligent scheduling and a highly elastic architecture, e-commerce order processing efficiency has improved significantly. The platform supports cross-version hot upgrades and self-service capabilities, meeting future expansion needs while greatly reducing the time-to-market for new business initiatives. 

High Availability Assurance
The active-active cluster design, combined with triple-layer redundancy in management service HA, virtual machine HA, and network HA, ensures platform availability of 99.99%, effectively avoiding business interruption risks and continuously supporting the core e-commerce systems with stability.