Информационное Руководство для Cisco Cisco Nexus 5010 Switch
Customer Case Study
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Challenge
A global company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, NetApp creates innovative
storage and data management solutions. More than 12,000 customers worldwide use
more than 87,000 NetApp storage platforms.
storage and data management solutions. More than 12,000 customers worldwide use
more than 87,000 NetApp storage platforms.
As part of the company’s commitment to ongoing innovation and rigorous quality
control, NetApp engineers conduct stress tests on new NetApp storage hardware and
software products, reproducing the conditions in demanding customer environments.
“We test against conditions that meet or exceed extreme performance conditions in
enterprise data centers,” says Brad Flanary, manager of Engineering Support Systems
for NetApp.
control, NetApp engineers conduct stress tests on new NetApp storage hardware and
software products, reproducing the conditions in demanding customer environments.
“We test against conditions that meet or exceed extreme performance conditions in
enterprise data centers,” says Brad Flanary, manager of Engineering Support Systems
for NetApp.
Tests are conducted in a 30,000-square-foot data center within NetApp’s Global
Dynamic Laboratory, located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The test
environment, called the NetApp Kilo Client, is designed to enable the company’s
engineers to quickly configure and boot a large number of physical and virtual clients
to conduct tests. For example, an engineering team might request four NetApp storage
controllers with a specified I/O profile and 100 Linux virtual machines handling network
file server (NFS) traffic.
Dynamic Laboratory, located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. The test
environment, called the NetApp Kilo Client, is designed to enable the company’s
engineers to quickly configure and boot a large number of physical and virtual clients
to conduct tests. For example, an engineering team might request four NetApp storage
controllers with a specified I/O profile and 100 Linux virtual machines handling network
file server (NFS) traffic.
By mid-2007, the Kilo Client had grown to include more than 1700 blade servers
that could boot over Small Computer System Interface over IP (iSCSI) or Fibre
Channel. The shared environment worked well. Therefore, when server leases
expired, the Engineering Support Systems team decided to supplement it with a new
platform capable of replicating more intense workloads typical of customers’ cloud
environments.
that could boot over Small Computer System Interface over IP (iSCSI) or Fibre
Channel. The shared environment worked well. Therefore, when server leases
expired, the Engineering Support Systems team decided to supplement it with a new
platform capable of replicating more intense workloads typical of customers’ cloud
environments.
Storage Manufacturer Builds Highly Scalable Testing Cloud
NetApp, Inc.
• Manufacturer
• Sunnyvale, California
• 8000 employees
• Sunnyvale, California
• 8000 employees
Challenge
• Deliver on-demand server and
storage resources for testing
extreme workloads
• Accelerate test-bed setup
• Minimize data center space,
• Minimize data center space,
power, and cooling requirements
Solution
• Built private cloud for
engineering-as-a-service (EaaS)
Results
• Consolidated from 204 to 2
management points for servers
• Deployed 10,000 virtual machines
in less than 1 hour
• Reduced cabling by 78 percent
Executive Summary