Canadian Solar Solutions Inc. Envisions a Sunny Future with Nutanix
Canadian Solar Solutions Inc. Envisions a Sunny Future with Nutanix
3 Pages©2017 Nutanix, Inc. All Rights Reserved CHALLENGE Canadian Solar had been relying on four physical servers and several aging NetApp storage systems, running its MS Exchange, SQL, SharePoint, enterprise applications, and company intranet. The environment was already fully virtualized using VMware ESXi with over 100 VMs. “Management was always a challenge with the NetApp infrastructure,” noted Richard Briston, senior network and infrastructure specialist at Canadian Solar. “We had to know all of the ‘ins and outs’ of hardware from multiple vendors. Since there are only two of us on the IT team dealing specifically with this infrastructure hardware, we do not have enough time to become specialists on every piece. As a result, we had to outsource some IT tasks, including our annual Ne
