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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
NetApp
● Manufacturer
● Sunnyvale, California
● 8000 employees
● Sunnyvale, California
● 8000 employees
Business Impact
● Reduced cabling costs by 79 percent
● Reduced network equipment costs by 40
● Reduced network equipment costs by 40
percent
● Saved US$150,000 on DMZ by using Virtual
Device Context
● Enabled cost-effective scalability
Manufacturer Virtualizes Data Center Apps
NetApp used Nexus Switch platform to build cloud-computing environment with low-cost 10 Gigabit
Ethernet connectivity.
Ethernet connectivity.
Business Challenge
A global company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, NetApp creates innovative storage and data management
solutions and is an industry leader in 10 Gb storage. When NetApp’s two California data centers outgrew available
space and power capacity, the company decided to consolidate them and build two new data centers. A new facility
in Raleigh, North Carolina would be used for development, quality assurance, and disaster recovery. Another facility
in Sacramento, California would house production applications.
solutions and is an industry leader in 10 Gb storage. When NetApp’s two California data centers outgrew available
space and power capacity, the company decided to consolidate them and build two new data centers. A new facility
in Raleigh, North Carolina would be used for development, quality assurance, and disaster recovery. Another facility
in Sacramento, California would house production applications.
The IT team wanted to virtualize applications in the new data centers to minimize equipment costs, management
overhead, and energy consumption. Virtualization would require:
overhead, and energy consumption. Virtualization would require:
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Providing 10 Gigabit Ethernet connectivity for a new generation of servers
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Enabling virtualization features such as VMware VMotion and Data Distribution Services (DDS)
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Preparing for future adoption of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and IEEE 802.1 Data Center Bridging
(DCB)
(DCB)
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Creating a highly available, scalable, and repeatable design with no single point of failure
Solution and Results
NetApp and Cisco share a vision of dynamic, fully virtualized server, network, and storage environments built on high-
performance Ethernet frameworks. The two industry leaders have worked together since 2003 to deliver unified, fully
integrated architectures. Therefore, it was a natural fit for NetApp to use the Cisco
performance Ethernet frameworks. The two industry leaders have worked together since 2003 to deliver unified, fully
integrated architectures. Therefore, it was a natural fit for NetApp to use the Cisco
®
Nexus platform to build a cloud-
computing environment in Raleigh. Then, one year later, the IT team used the same design in a new production data
center in Sacramento. “Of all the data center switches we evaluated, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Switch best matched the
300 requirements we identified for application virtualization, including Layer 2 access support, an enhanced 10
Gigabit Ethernet backbone, 10 Gigabit Ethernet server connectivity, and FCoE support,” says Kamal Vyas, lead
network design engineer, NetApp.
center in Sacramento. “Of all the data center switches we evaluated, the Cisco Nexus 5000 Switch best matched the
300 requirements we identified for application virtualization, including Layer 2 access support, an enhanced 10
Gigabit Ethernet backbone, 10 Gigabit Ethernet server connectivity, and FCoE support,” says Kamal Vyas, lead
network design engineer, NetApp.