Summary

Lei Shing Hong Machinery (LSHM) was founded in October 1994 and became the first dealer in mainland China for CAT — the worldwide leader for construction machinery and engines. LSHM has built up a dedicated workforce of over 2400 employees with broad and diverse expertise in construction machine, engine and power systems delivering annual turnover exceeding US$900 million. In order to improve the efficiency and agility of their development and testing, LSHM Information Department gradually uses containers in production system, and runs CRM and internal process management systems in container environment.

Challenges

• NFS has low performance, and unables to provide reliable storage services for production system
• Ceph, GlusterFS, and traditional NAS cannot meet the necessary functions production environment
• Data loss in case of large-scale failures

Results

• Seamless integration with container framework to realize automatic scheduling
• Excellent cross-node rebuild for stateful container applications
• Epic performance for the random IO requirements of MySQL and other database applications in container
• Prometheus exporter helps operation and monitoring automation