Sauber F1 Team Increases Efficiency and Productivity with Netapp As the Storage Standard

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Success Story Sauber F1 Team Increases Efficiency and Productivity With NetApp as the Storage Standard

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Customer Profile computational fluid dynamics (CFD) Labelling element -KEY Minimum HIGHLIGHTS size of white box and spacing (example: PARTNER / Premium Partner) Sauber Motorsport AG help to optimize the technology. Industry 1/2 Y (www.sauberf1team.com), with A super computer provides the X 1/2 Y Formula 1 Motorsport about 300 employees of various performance required to carry out 1/2 X 1/2 X nationalities, has its headquarters at the highly complex CFD software The Challenge Hinwil, a 30-minute drive southeast simulations. The grid models used Y PARTNERReliable, flexible, and uniform Y of Zurich, Switzerland. Founded by in these simulations often consist storageP R EMIUM infrastructure PA R T N E R as a basis for Peter Sauber in 1970, the company of more than 100 million cells. 1/2 X complete IT services in technology, has taken part in Formula 1 races 1/2 X The Sauber F1 Team’s wind tunnel business, and administration 1/2 Y since 1993. 1/2 Y is a closed circuit with a total length The Solution The company is located on a of 141 meters, excluding the test ® NetApp storage and data highly efficiently developed site section. The test objects, 60%- management with the 24/7 approximately 15,600 square size models of the racing cars, are ™ reliability of the MetroCluster meters in size, excluding the wind exposed to airflow from the front solution, integrated data tunnel building. The site houses and also from a slight angle; the protection, and comprehensive the operational business and also whole measuring platform can be scalability of performance, development, design, and production rotated. The workplaces of the model functions, and capacity facilities. Prototypes are tested designers and makers, as well as the CFD engineers and aerodynamicists Benefits for aerodynamic performance and are all located in the same building. • Simplified management optimized for the racing circuit in the wind tunnel building. and reduced complexity by The large amount of data that is consolidating all data services The Challenge created by development, wind tunnel • Storage efficiency reduced IT Fully integrated IT infrastructure testing and simulations in Hinwil costs and freed up resources from a single source must be stored quickly and reliably, for racing technology Formula 1 racing is a race against but in such a way that it can also be • Deployed a mobile data center time from development through to retrieved at any time. And there’s on the racing circuit thanks the checkered flag. The quality of more: Even at the racetrack, IT and ® to the FlexPod solution with design and development, the skill of data capture are absolutely essential. NetApp, Cisco, and VMware the drivers, and not least a robust, Since 2008, the behavior of the • Achieved business continuity reliable, and high-performance cars in races has been recorded by with 24/7 storage utilization IT infrastructure contribute to the an application that is standard for team’s success. Applications such all teams, the Standard Electronic as computer-aided design and Control Unit (SECU) from McLaren „Without NetApp, and with only conventional technology, a data center of this type would be extremely difficult to realize, and the cost of resources would certainly be higher.“ Magnus Frey Head of IT, Sauber Motorsport AG

Electronics Systems. The data is around 240TB of data. NetApp computers simultaneously—for transmitted by radio, in some cases MetroCluster software makes it example, if a simulation is running virtually in real time, to the teams’ possible to place the two systems on one system and design is being central data centers. kilometers apart from each other, carried out on the other system. while data communication still Private cloud at the racetrack Sauber Motorsport AG decided on flows smoothly. storage solutions from NetApp as The high availability of the long ago as 2007. The desire for a Today, all application data – Dassault MetroCluster solution is not only consolidated IT infrastructure that Systèmes CATIA, Windows File critical for the work at Hinwil, but easily adapts to the steadily growing Services, Microsoft Exchange, also for data transfer during the race. requirements was best implemented databases, and the SAP landscape NetApp technology also plays a by using the NetApp Unified Storage – is consolidated in this cluster. critical role here. “Specifically for the Architecture. The approximate annual The servers have been virtualized racetrack, we needed a small and increase in data is about 15%, and using VMware solutions and are lightweight system that can be easily the dataset quickly becomes obsolete incorporated into the high-availability flown from one place to the next. and is deleted. Sauber Motorsport AG concept using VMware VMotion. It had to be extremely reliable and wanted to provide all IT services via a The storage design includes a cross- deliver the performance required for single platform, which takes the place configuration for data protection: File demanding graphics applications. of numerous individual solutions data is backed up by using NetApp With our mobile FlexPod data and so increases the efficiency of Snapshot® technology, while NetApp center, we can implement this highly the services. The recommendation SnapManager protects applications efficiently,” says Magnus Frey. of the previous team owner, BMW, such as Microsoft SQL Server, “Without NetApp, and with only to consider NetApp solutions, has Oracle, and SAP. conventional technology, a data proven to be groundbreaking. center of this type would be extremely “Actually, the whole company difficult to realize, and the cost of The Solution depends on the MetroCluster resources would certainly be higher.” NetApp storage as standard solution. Were it to stop, it would Efficiency has top priority for the suddenly become rather quiet in FlexPod is an “out of the box” data Sauber F1 Team. Short distances Hinwil,” says Magnus Frey, head of center from NetApp and Cisco. This mean optimum workflow. For that IT at Sauber Motorsport AG. The validated and preconfigured solution reason, a closed bridge connects the 24/7 availability of the system is an for computer, network, and storage wind tunnel with the design offices absolute must, especially during has been optimized for a range of and IT area. A NetApp FAS8040 the racing season. And the wind applications; and, by using hypervisor system is implemented as the central tunnel is also in operation almost software, it can be expanded up to storage with 720TB gross capacity. 24/7, so the data generated must be a cloud solution. In the Sauber F1 Together with its counterpart in the constantly processed and saved. The Team’s FlexPod system, servers and main building, this forms a fail-safe environment has around 250 users. desktops are virtualized by using storage cluster with automated Almost a third of the workstations VMware solutions and are stored on failover, currently accommodating operate CATIA, often with two the NetApp platform together with the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Foto: Sauber calculation

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Figure 1: Storage infrastructure and data communication at Sauber Motorsport AG. file data. A Cisco Unified Computing to rely on our IT, but we also need Constant optimization System (UCS) provides the compute innovative functions so that we can “Sauber Motorsport AG and NetApp power. The FlexPod system, with a increase our productivity.” are both highly innovative companies total of eight hosts, is situated in the that pay attention to quality and With NetApp as standard storage, team garage at the racetrack. Here reliability,” says Magnus Frey. “We Sauber Motorsport AG benefits the SECU data is merged and is can see how NetApp continues to significantly from the efficiency of analyzed on site. develop its products, as well as the the considerable number of features benefit that we get from them. With The Sauber Motorsport AG IT – from uniform management to the upgrade to the current model, team is supported by NetApp and deduplication to Snapshot backup. we can also use the NetApp Flash system integrator BSR & Partner AG. Thanks to more frequent backup Cache technology and benefit from Magnus Frey is delighted with the of file versions and immediate file a performance boost. This also collaboration: “We have been working restores, this technology has helped contributes to our productivity with BSR & Partner AG for a long to avoid many hours of extra work, and efficiency.” time. Particularly for a project such as which was met with great enthusiasm IT at the circuit, it is important that our from the design team. needs are understood and the budget also adds up. After all, every Swiss Deduplication avoids the tendency franc that goes into IT is not going to store things twice, and clients into vehicle development.” know that no storage capacity is unnecessarily occupied and therefore Business Benefits wasted. With this feature, Sauber Using efficiency to F1 Team can eliminate 10% to 15% counter time pressure of the data on the FlexPod system; The Sauber F1 Team strives to on the virtual machines, the figure is extract the maximum possible 65%. This means that the team can advantage within the FIA rules and manage with a small storage system takes unconventional approaches to at the racetrack. Last but not least, aerodynamics and design, leading the integration with the VMware to innovative solutions. “However, solutions offers convenient storage the essential thing is that we have administration through VMware everything ready on time and that vCenter. we arrive at the start in tip-top condition,” explains Magnus Frey. “If development was to stop, or be delayed due to an IT problem, and a new wing did not get to the car in time, we would have an enormous problem. We simply have to be able „Actually the whole company depends on the MetroCluster solution. Were it to stop, it would suddenly become rather quiet in Hinwil.“ Magnus Frey Head of IT, Sauber Motorsport AG

SOLUTION COMPONENTS

NetApp Produkte Environment 2 NetApp FAS8040 systems Computational fluid dynamics NetApp MetroCluster software Dassault Systèmes CATIA NetApp deduplication Microsoft Exchange Server NetApp Flash Cache software Microsoft SQL Server NetApp SnapManager for SQL Microsoft Windows Office Server, Oracle, and SAP Microsoft Windows Server® ® NetApp SnapRestore data Oracle Database recovery software SAP R/3 ECC 6.0 NetApp Snapshot technology VMware ESX Server Protocols VMware vCenter Server FC, NFS, CIFS VMware VMotion FlexPod VMware vSphere Cisco Nexus switch Partner Cisco UCS Server BSR & Partner AG NetApp FAS2040 system www.bsr-partner.ch VMware View VMware vSphere

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