Case Study: Oath achieves higher VMware performance and lower storage costs with Vexata VX-100F

Oath - Customer Case Study

Oath, the media distribution arm behind AOL/Oath, needed to scale a virtualized infrastructure running multiple MySQL VMs and other applications while avoiding performance bottlenecks, rising costs, and the “noisy neighbor” effect that caused workloads to interfere with one another. Its existing two-tier SAN of multiple all-flash arrays struggled with complexity and scaling, especially for mission-critical workloads in a private cloud environment.

Vexata addressed these challenges by replacing Oath’s multiple AFAs with a single Vexata VX-100F Scalable NVMe Flash Array. The result was simplified storage management, lower capital and operational costs, and strong performance at scale, including more than 35GB/s mixed throughput on older 8Gb FC infrastructure and full utilization of 32Gb FC ports after an upgrade. Vexata also eliminated the noisy neighbor issue and met Oath’s requirements for non-disruptive scaling and in-service upgrades.

Oath

Dan Pollack

Chief Storage Architect