Case Study: Internet E-commerce Company achieves SLA support and reduced storage change risk with Virtual Instruments

Storage Performance Validation Helps Support SLAs and de-risk changes as integral part of Company’s Storage Lifecycle Management

Internet E-commerce Company, a global e-commerce business with large-scale Oracle workloads and strict SLA requirements, needed a way to validate storage performance as it evaluated flash systems, tuned configurations, and reduced risk from ongoing storage changes. The company used Virtual Instruments’ Load DynamiX platform to support storage lifecycle management and make data-driven decisions instead of relying on vendor claims.

With Virtual Instruments, the IT team profiled application I/O, emulated workloads, and tested arrays and microcode changes in lab and pre-production environments. The result was faster, more consistent testing cycles, apples-to-apples vendor comparisons, and better confidence in production changes; the company said Load DynamiX made testing “much more efficient” and improved the validity of performance results, helping them better support application SLAs.