Netapp Storage

Macatawa Bank Re-gains 2 TB of Disk
Customer Profile

Macatawa Bank is a community bank with assets of over $2 billion and 450 employees.

The Challenge

Performance and disk space utilization issues using 4 IBM ESX servers, an IBM N5600 SAN (IBM branded NetApp), and NFS for VMware.

The Solution

OST Services - optimized the RAID layout and volume usage to regain capacity. Reconfigured the SAN network and ESX servers to solve the performance issue.

Business Benefits

Regained two terabytes of usable disk space avoiding a $nnK spend, improved overall performance to exceed the SLA where is not meeting the SLA.