Challenge: Reliable, flexible, and uniform storage infrastructure as a basis for complete IT services in technology, business, and administration Solution: NetApp® storage and data management with the 24/7 reliability of the MetroClusterTM solution, integrated data protection, and comprehensive scalability of performance, functions, and capacity

1. Success Story
Sauber F1 Team
Increases Efficiency and
Productivity With NetApp
as the Storage Standard
Another NetApp
solution delivered by:
Photo: Sauber Motorsport AG
Customer Profile computational fluid dynamics (CFD)
KEY HIGHLIGHTS
Sauber Motorsport AG help to optimize the technology.
Industry (www.sauberf1team.com), with A super computer provides the
Formula 1 Motorsport about 300 employees of various performance required to carry out
nationalities, has its headquarters at the highly complex CFD software
The Challenge Hinwil, a 30-minute drive southeast simulations. The grid models used
Reliable, flexible, and uniform of Zurich, Switzerland. Founded by in these simulations often consist
storage infrastructure as a basis for Peter Sauber in 1970, the company of more than 100 million cells.
complete IT services in technology, has taken part in Formula 1 races
business, and administration The Sauber F1 Team’s wind tunnel
since 1993.
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 model builders, CFD
for aerodynamic performance and engineers, and aerodynamics engineers
Benefits
optimized for the racing circuit in are located the same building.
Simplified management
and reduced complexity by the wind tunnel building.
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 and be retrievable at any time. And
Deployed a mobile data center time from development through to there’s more: Even at the racetrack,
on the racing circuit thanks the checkered flag. The quality of IT and data capture are absolutely
to the FlexPod™ solution with design and development, the skill of essential. Since 2008, the behavior of
NetApp, Cisco®, and VMware® the drivers, and not least a robust, the cars in races has been recorded
Achieved business continuity reliable, and high-performance by an application that is standard for
with 24/7 storage utilization IT infrastructure contribute to the all teams, the Standard Electronic
team’s success. Applications such Control Unit (SECU) from McLaren
as computer-aided design and Electronics Systems. The data is

2. „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
transmitted by radio, in some cases around 200TB of data. NetApp computers simultaneously—for
virtually in real time, to the teams’ MetroCluster software makes it example, if a simulation is running
central data centers. possible to place the two systems on one system and design is being
kilometers apart from each other, carried out on the other system.
Sauber Motorsport AG decided on while data communication still
storage solutions from NetApp as Private cloud at the racetrack
flows smoothly.
long ago as 2007. The desire for a The high availability of the
consolidated IT infrastructure that Today, all application data – Dassault MetroCluster solution is not only
easily adapts to the steadily growing Systèmes CATIA, Windows® File critical for the work at Hinwil, but
requirements was best implemented Services, Microsoft® Exchange, also for data transfer during the race.
by using the NetApp Unified Storage databases, and the SAP® landscape NetApp technology also plays a
Architecture. The approximate annual – is consolidated in this cluster. critical role here. “Specifically for the
increase in data is just about 15%, The servers have been virtualized racetrack, we needed a small and
and the dataset quickly becomes using VMware solutions and are lightweight system that can be easily
obsolete and is deleted. Sauber incorporated into the high-availability flown from one place to the next.
Motorsport AG wanted to provide concept using VMware VMotion™. It had to be extremely reliable and
all IT services via a single platform, The storage design includes a cross- deliver the performance required for
which takes the place of numerous configuration for data protection: File demanding graphics applications.
individual solutions and so increases data is backed up by using NetApp With our mobile FlexPod data
the efficiency of the services. The Snapshot™ technology, while NetApp center, we can implement this highly
recommendation of the previous SnapManager® protects applications efficiently,” says Magnus Frey.
team owner, BMW, to consider such as Microsoft SQL Server®, “Without NetApp, and with only
NetApp solutions, has proven to Oracle®, and SAP. conventional technology, a data
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 FAS3240 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 460TB 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

3. Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD) Foto: Sauber
calculation
Data Center 1 Data Center 2
Hinwil Hinwil CFD pre- and
postprocessing
VMware VMware
VMware vSphere and VMotion
NetApp SnapManager
NetApp MetroCluster
NetApp FAS3240 NetApp FAS3240
NetApp Snapshot
SECU
Capturing vehicle data Mobile FlexPod
at the racetrack data center at the racetrack
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
team garage at the racetrack. Here With NetApp as standard storage,
reliability,” says Magnus Frey. “We
the SECU data is merged and is Sauber Motorsport AG benefits
can see how NetApp continues to
analyzed on site. significantly from the efficiency of
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 UP-GREAT 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 worked restores, this technology has helped
contributes to our productivity
with UP-GREAT from the outset. to avoid many hours of extra work,
and efficiency.”
Particularly for a project such as IT meeting with great enthusiasm from
at the circuit, it is important that our 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

4. „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 FAS3240 systems Computational fluid dynamics
NetApp MetroCluster software Dassault Systèmes CATIA
NetApp deduplication Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
NetApp Flash Cache software Microsoft Windows Office
NetApp SnapManager for SQL Microsoft Windows Server®
Server, Oracle, and SAP Oracle Database
NetApp SnapRestore® data SAP R/3 ECC 6.0
recovery software
VMware ESX™ Server 4.1
NetApp Snapshot technology
VMware vCenter Server 4.1
Protocols VMware VMotion 4.1
FC, NFS, CIFS
VMware vSphere 4.1
FlexPod
Partner
Cisco Nexus® switch
UP-GREAT AG
Cisco UCS Server www.up-great.ch
NetApp FAS2040 system
VMware View 4.5
VMware vSphere™ 4.1
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