1. FlexPod as a Competitive Edge
How Moffatt & Nichol boosted data center performance while cutting overhead
Shawn McCullough, Director of IT, Moffatt & Nichol
Mark Melvin – VP, CTO, ePlus
Patrick Rogers – VP, Data Center Platforms, NetApp
Cisco Live! Orlando, 2013
Session # BRKPCS-2027

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What If You Could…
 Accelerate business response
instead of being the critical path
 Focus on IT innovation
instead of keeping things running
 Quickly support all new opportunities
even opportunities not yet identified
 Do it all with one architecture
for any workload

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FlexPod Innovations in Data Center Technology
Unified
Management
Programmable
Infrastructure
Unified
Fabric
 Policy-based automation and service profiles
 Self-integrating components
 Abstraction of bare metal server elements
 Open API for automation
 Orchestration through industry standard tools
 Virtualization awareness
 Scalability without complexity
 High-performance I/O
Cisco Unified Computing System
NetApp Clustered Data ONTAP
 Virtualize storage into pools
 Nondisruptive data motion
Unified Storage
Intelligent
Data Management
 Built-in storage efficiency
 Integrated data protection

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Cisco Nexus®
Family Switches
NetApp Clustered
Data ONTAP
Cisco®
UCS Servers and
UCS Manager
FlexPod: Next Generation Integrated Infrastructure
Virtualized Storage Pool
Virtualized Compute Pool
Virtualized Network Pool
Virtualization
App AppAppApp
AppApp
Bare Metal
Pool resources
 Single server pool / storage pool
 Service profiles for consistent policy-based Cisco UCS®
deployments
Abstract resources
 Virtualized servers and storage
 Stateless computing
 Dynamic scalability; app and
data mobility
Consume resources
 Service catalogs
 Rapid resource provisioning in
accordance with SLAs
 Open APIs for self-service / user-driven resource
consumption

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Leading US-based global
infrastructure advisor
Engineering, planning,
design, and economic
analysis of waterfront and
transportation infrastructure
28 global offices
Headquarters in Long Beach,
California

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IT Challenges:
• Manage and store large amounts of data safely and
securely
• Support daily project development and delivery globally
• Meet deadlines without downtime
• Replace aging infrastructure (tape-based backup and
DR)

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IT Solution:
• Integrated FlexPod environment running
processing-intensive applications
• Workloads consolidated on FlexPod:
high-end engineering applications,
Exchange, SQL server, and more.
• NetApp SnapMirror and SnapVault for
data protection and disaster recovery

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Solution results:
• Reduced daily backup of project data - 300GB to 50 GB
• Improved data recovery from hours to minutes
• Savings of up to $10,000 per remote office
• Cut administrative costs by 15% while boosting operation
performance and business continuity
• Helped keep projects on schedule and maximize employee
productivity
• Modular, scalable FlexPod architecture that grows with the
company

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FlexPod -- Breakthroughs for Your Business
Get to market faster
FreePort-McMoRan transformed SAP
infrastructure to expand copper production
by 1B lbs/yr
Continuous operations
Sauber F1 completed all technology
refreshes in two weeks with no downtime
Cut costs in half
Computacenter uses 90% less storage for
virtual environments
Avoid building
a new data center
Loughborough University reduced 50-60
racks to just 8

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Find Out About FlexPod
 Visit the NetApp stand (#711) and Cisco
booth to speak with our experts
 Visit the Cisco Live! NOC. FlexPod is used to
run the Cisco Live! data center workloads
 Download the Moffatt & Nichol success story
from netapp.com
 Visit http://www.netapp.com/flexpod
 Visit http://www.moffattnichol.com
 Visit http://www.eplus.com