IPH is a technology company with more than 20 years of experience specialized in the development of advanced solutions for the mining, industrial and civil engineering sectors. Based in Huelva, the company has established itself as a national reference in digitalization, communications, geomatics and technological infrastructure projects applied to critical industrial environments, collaborating with some of the main mining companies in the Iberian Peninsula. Thanks to its technical capabilities and its constant commitment to innovation, IPH develops platforms and services designed for mission-critical environments where availability, resilience and operational continuity are essential factors.
For this project, a virtualization infrastructure based on a Proxmox VE cluster with distributed Ceph storage was designed and deployed, consisting of three nodes located across different physical sites. This architecture provides high availability and geographical redundancy, ensuring service continuity even in the event of severe incidents or the complete loss of one of the locations. Thanks to the connectivity deployed between sites, the environment operates with response times equivalent to those of a local infrastructure.
On top of this infrastructure, the software platform developed by IPH was adapted and deployed in a high availability environment. To achieve this, multiple synchronized instances of the different application, communications, messaging and database services were deployed across several cluster nodes. In addition, load balancing and automatic failover mechanisms were configured using floating IPs and replicated services, allowing the platform to continue operating transparently for users and dependent applications in the event of any incident, without interruptions or the need for manual intervention.
This architecture provides a high level of fault tolerance and ensures continuous service availability in mission-critical environments where stability and operational continuity are essential factors.
As part of the protection and service continuity strategy, a backup infrastructure based on Proxmox Backup Server (PBS) was deployed, configured to perform automatic backups every eight hours for all critical services within the environment. The system was specifically sized not only to provide secure and resilient backup storage, but also to ensure rapid recovery capabilities in the event of severe incidents.
The PBS server was deployed together with a Proxmox VE platform, allowing the essential virtual machines to be temporarily started directly on the backup environment in the event of a complete failure of the main cluster. This approach guarantees the minimum availability of critical services and significantly reduces recovery times, forming an integral part of the Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP).