The new energy industry is expanding rapidly across power batteries, electric vehicles, energy storage, hydrogen energy, and advanced materials. As manufacturers build new factories and expand production worldwide, IT infrastructure plays an increasingly important role in supporting business growth.
So far, SmartX has helped more than 40 new energy enterprises modernize their infrastructure with SmartX ECP. The platform enables faster factory deployment, stable hosting of mission-critical workloads, VMware replacement, unified management across multiple sites, and stronger business continuity through backup and disaster recovery.
Common Infrastructure Requirements for New Energy Manufacturers
Accelerating new factory rollout
Standardized ECP solutions accelerate the rollout of new factories globally and enable new business systems to go live quickly, with on-demand scalability aligned with business growth.
Stable hosting for core production workloads
Provides highly reliable, high-performance support for mission-critical workloads such as MES, ERP, AGV, SCADA, PLM, MOM, SAP, and databases.
VMware replacement and architecture upgrade
Replaces VMware while upgrading from a traditional three-tier architecture to a hyperconverged architecture, reducing hardware procurement and software subscription costs.
Simplified O&M and disaster recovery consolidation
Enables flexible, collaborative O&M between headquarters and production sites, while improving business continuity through disaster recovery (DR), backup, and visualized monitoring capabilities.
The following customer stories demonstrate how manufacturers are using SmartX to meet these infrastructure requirements in real-world production environments.
Customer Success Stories
A World-Renowned New Energy Technology Group: 200+ Nodes Across 16 Branch Factories
A world-renowned new energy technology group deployed 200+ SmartX ECP (ELF) nodes across 16 branch factories to replace its existing vSphere + vSAN environment. The platform now hosts core business systems including MES, AGV, formation, process management, and battery swapping systems that support new business models.
During the deployment, SmartX was integrated with the customer’s existing O&M monitoring, backup, and cloud management platforms, helping reduce replacement and construction costs. The customer also established a collaborative O&M model with strong headquarters-level standards and strong site-level management, ensuring consistent delivery and operations across multiple factories.
A Leading Power Lithium Battery Manufacturer: 200+ Nodes Supporting 10+ Global Production Lines
A leading power lithium battery manufacturer deployed 200+ nodes to support more than 10 production lines worldwide, replacing its VMware virtualization platform. The customer has also designated SmartX ELF as the standard virtualization platform for future-built clusters hosting mission-critical workloads.
The platform supports core production systems including MES, big data platforms, battery network private cloud, and customer service centers. By strengthening strategic coordination at headquarters while enabling efficient execution at production sites, the customer has achieved unified management and standardized operations of IT resources across multiple locations.
A Leading New Energy Vehicle Manufacturer: 150+ Nodes for a Standardized New Factory Model
A leading new energy vehicle manufacturer deployed 150+ nodes in a newly built factory to host core production systems such as MES, ESB, and warehouse management. Using SMTX Migration Tool, the customer migrated virtual machines from its legacy environment and replaced VMware virtualization plus centralized storage.
The factory has become a model for replicable, standardized site construction. With a reusable infrastructure architecture, the customer can shorten deployment cycles and accelerate the go-live of core business systems in future factory rollouts.
REPT Battero: Unified Management of Domestic and Overseas Factories
REPT Battero, a lithium battery manufacturer under a Fortune 500 group, uses SmartX to host core business systems such as MES, ERP, and data middle platforms, helping prevent performance bottlenecks in mission-critical production systems.
Domestic and overseas factory clusters are centrally managed through CloudTower, reducing O&M complexity across multiple sites. As the business expanded, headquarters completed five rounds of expansion within three years and introduced multiple subsidiaries, enabling infrastructure capabilities to evolve in parallel with business growth.
A Leading Lithium Battery Manufacturing Group: Replacing VxRail to Reduce Expansion Costs
A leading lithium battery manufacturing group adopted SmartX to replace its VxRail hyperconverged infrastructure, reducing new hardware procurement and expansion costs while ensuring local support service quality.
The platform hosts key production business systems and databases for subsidiaries, including MES, PLM, MOM, SCADA, and energy storage platforms. Domestic and overseas factory clusters are also centrally managed through CloudTower, lowering the complexity of cross-region and multi-site operations.
Inovance New Energy Vehicle: Phased Replacement of VMware Clusters
Inovance New Energy Vehicle, an intelligent electric vehicle core components service provider, uses SmartX ECP (ELF) to host key business systems such as MES, WMS, ERP, and office systems.
As part of its infrastructure upgrade, the customer is replacing VMware clusters with SmartX ECP in phases, enabling a smooth migration path. SmartX also supports unified management of heterogeneous hardware across different brands and device types, helping the customer improve utilization of existing hardware resources.
VMAX: 10+ Expansions Over Four Years Across Branch Factories
VMAX, a leading new energy vehicle power system provider, has expanded its SmartX deployment more than 10 times over four years. Today, nearly 30 nodes cover branch factories across China.
The platform hosts core business systems such as MOM, BFS, MES, PLM, LIMS, SRM, and BI, as well as SQL Server and Redis databases. The customer completed cluster setup in just one day, significantly shortening the business go-live cycle and providing stable infrastructure support for rapidly expanding branch factories.
Hailiang New Energy Materials: Core Factory Applications with Disaster Recovery
Hailiang New Energy Materials, a global leader in copper tube and rod processing, uses SmartX to host core factory applications such as MES, PLM, and SCADA.
For business continuity, the customer combines SmartX with Zerto CDP continuous data protection technology to achieve an RPO of no more than one second for critical services, providing high-level disaster recovery protection for core production systems.
Shaanxi Coal New Energy: Supporting Core Hydrogen Energy R&D Systems and Security Protection
Shaanxi Coal New Energy, a key R&D base for hydrogen energy technology, uses SmartX to host core business systems supporting its supercomputing platforms, including intelligent base management systems and Oracle databases.
The project also built a distributed firewall, mapped VM-system access relationships, and designed secure access control policies based on those relationships. This protects core business data while simplifying security management. The customer also uses SMTX Backup & DR for data backup, further improving business continuity.
TBEA: From Core Business Hosting to Public Cloud Migration
TBEA, a leading company in China’s electrical industry, uses SmartX to host core business systems for branch organizations, including power collection and power trading, as well as new business systems such as drone control platforms and power plant access software.
To enhance security, the customer built a distributed firewall to protect data flows for power collection and power trading. For business continuity, it uses SMTX Backup & DR for data backup. TBEA has also migrated headquarters office systems from the public cloud to SmartX ECP and developed a long-term plan for gradually moving more workloads off the public cloud.
Conclusion
IT infrastructure is no longer just a supporting layer for business systems; it has become a critical capability that affects factory rollout speed, production system stability, cross-site management efficiency, and business continuity.
With standardized HCI, VMware replacement capabilities, unified O&M management, backup and disaster recovery, and security capabilities, SmartX helps new energy enterprises build modern infrastructure that is replicable, scalable, and ready for continuous evolution.
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