Case Study: New York Presbyterian Hospital selects optimal flash storage with Virtana Storage Load Testing

New York Presbyterian Hospital selects Virtana for flash storage testing, hitting 240 MB/sec

New York Presbyterian Hospital, a major healthcare provider, needed to test flash-based storage arrays under production-like conditions to find an optimal solution for their performance-sensitive virtualized applications. They required a tool that could accurately simulate their unique workloads, including those with data reduction features, which made traditional tools like Iometer unsuitable. They engaged Virtana and used its Storage Load Testing product to meet this challenge.

Virtana implemented its Storage Load Testing solution to run comparative benchmark and custom application workload tests on the candidate arrays. The solution enabled the hospital to validate that Vendor A's array could meet their demanding throughput requirements, achieving 240 MB/sec compared to Vendor B's 120 MB/sec. As a result, New York Presbyterian selected Vendor A's array with full confidence it would support their production workloads, mitigating the risks of deploying new storage into their data center.

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