Building a Private Cloud Platform with All-Flash vSAN Ready Nodes - Improving proposal power and service level with HCI

Oct 22, 2026

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iTSherpa built a private cloud platform using Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes with HCI to meet rising smartphone video sharing and streaming demand. The shift addressed performance and cost limitations of public cloud and physical servers, including congestion, storage growth pressure, and hardware preparation for new smartphone OS releases. The resulting infrastructure improved flexibility, enabled VM provisioning in as little as 30 minutes, and reduced cloud service costs while supporting high-quality, resource-intensive delivery with redundancy via RAID and NVMe caching.

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Business Challenges

Performance and cost issues with existing infrastructure

Solutions

All-Flash vSAN Ready Nodes and HCI deployment

VMware vSAN and enterprise support

Business Results

Faster provisioning and improved proposal speed

Reduced cloud service costs and resilient storage

Building a private cloud platform with All-Flash vSAN Ready Nodes Improving proposal power and service level with HCI To accommodate the growing popularity of sharing and watching video on smartphones, iTSherpa adopted Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes and built a private cloud platform with HCI. Software development | Japan Business Challenges Solutions iTSherpa utilized physical servers and IaaS cloud services to provide service packages incorporating social media, live streaming, and EC functions to its customers through an all-in-one service infrastructure. However, performance and cost issues in the service caused the company to look for a flexible virtualization platform with high-availability features. Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes -Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd -Dell EMC PowerEdge R440 -Dell EMC Networking S4048T-ON Enterprise Support -Dell EMC ProSupport Plus Business Results Development of the infrastructure to accommodate the growing demand for smartphone video delivery using HCI Reduction in cloud service costs, which enabled lower service fees Provisioning of VM in as little as 30 minutes, which helped achieve rapid service development and improve quality Several →As little30miasnutes months Provisioning of VM in as little as 30 minutes enabled rapid development of services The company can offer flexible services tailored to customer requirements, and proposal speed has improved by 20-30 percent Erasure Coding (RAID 6) on an all-flash configuration provides redundancy while also ensuring sufficient capacity and speed vpercent The company can offer flexible services tailored to customer requirements due to improved proposal speed iTSherpa Co. , Ltd (iTSherpa) provides the social media package GLAS, live-streaming systems, and e-commerce systems, and also develops a variety of applications. The company’s strength is its ability to offer the infrastructure platform for these services as an all-in-one solution. In the past, iTSherpa provided its service infrastructure through physical servers at a data center and IaaS cloud services. However, recognizing the importance of providing infrastructure through its own private cloud, the company developed an HCI environment using Dell EMC PowerEdge-based VMware vSAN™ (a service platform created by an HCI using VMware vSAN) . One year later, iTSherpa also adopted Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes designed with a pretested all-flash Dell EMC PowerEdge R740xd to develop and expand its HCI environment. “Using Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes-based HCI for infrastructure that supports resource-intensive video delivery and other services solved the issues associated with a public cloud and physical servers, and allowed us to deploy high-quality resources swiftly.” Naoto Sonezaki Director Infrastructure Service Department iTSherpa Co., Ltd. Investigation for the introduction of a private cloud iTSherpa uses its strengths in software development and building high-availability infrastructure to provide first-class services showcasing the potential of the Internet. The company initially offered its service provisioning infrastructure through physical servers located in a data center; however, after launching a service to deliver video to PCs 10 years ago, the number of servers began to increase, eventually reaching several hundred. Naoto Sonezaki, Director of the Infrastructure Service Department of iTSherpa, explains,“We attempted to virtualize and aggregate servers in 2010, but couldn’t achieve the necessary performance.” Asa result, the company relied on a public cloud and physical servers. However, sharing and watching video on smartphones grew in popularity, and in 2014, use of the cloud and physical servers began presenting a variety of issues.“Delivering video required an immense amount of resources and traffic for coding, conversion, storage, reading, and delivery. As the volume of video delivered to smartphones increased, the requi

FAQs

Why did iTSherpa look for a new virtualization platform?

Performance and cost problems emerged from using physical servers and public cloud services for video delivery. Congestion and scaling limitations made it difficult to keep up with expanding smartphone video demand.

What solutions were used to build the private cloud platform?

iTSherpa adopted Dell EMC vSAN Ready Nodes and built an HCI environment using VMware vSAN, using Dell EMC PowerEdge servers and enterprise support. The platform used RAID for redundancy and NVMe caching for sufficient I/O performance.

What measurable business outcomes did the new platform achieve?

VM provisioning time dropped to as little as 30 minutes, enabling rapid service development. Cloud service costs decreased, and proposal speed improved by 20–30 percent, supporting flexible services tailored to customer needs.

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