N series N7800 Appliance/N7800 Gateway - FibreChannel Performance Comparison for OLTP Workload

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Additional Author(s):
Christof Schirra
Christof Schirra, Roland Tomazini, Dirk Peitzmann, sspd database, Barry Clasper

Document ID:
TD103801


Doc. Organization:
Technical Sales Support - Europe

Document Revised:
2007-07-04


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N series








Abstract: SSPD - The customer, one of Europe's largest telecommunication providers, uses a standardized storage environment consisting of NetApp FAS filers running 80% SAP based on Oracle, 20% Windows iSCSI, and UNIX NFS fileservices. These NAS islands scale up only to a certain level of usable storage with acceptable performance. As soon as this level was reached, they added in the past another NetApp FAS Filer. With the recently performed proof of concept the ATS/FTSS System Storage team demonstrated that a N series Gateway solution with a DS8xxx as back-end storage can improve storage management and performance in their environment. The ATS/FTSS System Storage experts compared a N7800 Appliance with a N7800 Gateway. Finally the team could point out successfully that for the same usable capacity the N series Gateway is able to deliver better IOs, better storage management, and better response time in an OLTP workload environment.

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Solution Title: N series N7800 Appliance/N7800 Gateway - FibreChannel Performance Comparison for OLTP Workload

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Solution Source: Systems Lab Europe

SSPD ID: SSPD-CSCA-6Z9MNK


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Customer Annual Revenue: >$1B
Number of Employees: >100000
Industry: Telecommunications
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SSPD -The customer, one of Europe's largest telecommunication providers, uses a standardized storage environment consisting of NetApp FAS filers running 80% SAP based on Oracle, 20% Windows iSCSI, and UNIX NFS fileservices. These NAS islands scale up only to a certain level of usable storage with acceptable performance. As soon as this level was reached, they added in the past another NetApp FAS Filer. With the recently performed proof of concept the ATS/FTSS System Storage team demonstrated that a N series Gateway solution with a DS8xxx as back-end storage can improve storage management and performance in their environment. The ATS/FTSS System Storage experts compared a N7800 Appliance with a N7800 Gateway. Finally the team could point out successfully that for the same usable capacity the N series Gateway is able to deliver better IOs, better storage management, and better response time in an OLTP workload environment.
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With the recently performed proof of concept, the ATS/FTSS System Storage team demonstrated that a N series Gateway solution with a DS8xxx as back-end storage can improve storage management and performance in a customer environment. The ATS/FTSS System Storage experts compared a N series N7800 Appliance with a N7800 Gateway. The conclusion is that they could point out successfully that for the same usable capacity the Gateway is able to deliver, better IOs, better storage management, and better response time in an OLTP workload environment.
Client Background Information and Business Problem

The customer, one of Europe's largest telecommunication providers, uses a standardized storage environment consisting of NetApp FAS filers running 80% SAP based on Oracle, 20% Windows iSCSI, and UNIX NFS fileservices. These NAS islands scale up only to a certain level of usable storage with acceptable performance. As soon as this level was reached, they added in the past another NetApp FAS Filer.


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Contact Name: Christof Schirra
Job Title: IT Specialist
Organization: ATS System Storage
Country: Germany
Phone Number: +49 6131 84-6557
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eMail: cschirra@de.ibm.com