Use Cases; Solution Overview - Lenovo S3200 Quick Start Manual

Lenovo Storage S3200 with Fibre Channel
David is the product marketing manager for Lenovo's Data Center Group, Enterprise
storage platform. He has over 20 years of professional marketing, sales, and business
development experience across a broad range of telecommunication, banking, and
enterprise IT sectors. Previously he was the product & product marketing manager for
Lenovo's System x Ethernet and Fibre Channel options portfolio.
Jeff Lin
Jeff is a marketing manager for Broadcom Limited at Lenovo, with responsibility for
Emulex Fibre Channel adapters for System x, Flex System, and ThinkServer. He has
over 18 years' experience in various marketing roles at IBM and Lenovo.

Use Cases

Primarily, the reader of this document will be an administrator or user who desires an
assurance that a design is valid and that all parts have been tested together. This is a
high-level design that may fulfill a purpose perfectly by changing the processor, memory,
or the amount of storage. Details on creating a configuration are in the sizing section of
this document.
The use cases that we have targeted with this design include:
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Media streaming
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Web hosting
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OLTP databases
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Hosting communications (IM, email, shared storage)

Private cloud and general usage

Solution Overview

This design is flexible to accommodate differences in environments and computing
requirements. We made optimal selections from the broader product portfolios to ensure
that the target design considers cost, performance, and capacity. The principals
discussed within this document can allow for a small deployment as the primary use
case but can work for a medium sized deployment or even a large deployment when
using pod design philosophies.
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