Department of Defense
Department of Defense Cyber Range Relies on Tintri VMstore
Customer Case Study
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) Cyber Range is a realistic simulation and modeling network environment, used to safely test capabilities and train military personnel on how to prevent and defend against network intrusions. The DoD Cyber Range has been operating in Stafford, Virginia since October 2009. ManTech International is the civilian contractor agency that designed, engineered, built, and operates the DoD Cyber Range. Last year, the ManTech team managed over 125 separate customer events (IT projects) at the Cyber Range.
Challenge
- Provisioning new customer environments took weeks
- Existing storage was difficult to manage
- Wanted to reduce physical footprint, cooling, and power consumption
- Needed to enhance backup/replication of VMs
Solution
- Tintri VMstore
Results
- Simplified storage management and reduced training overhead
- Reduced time to deploy new VMs from two weeks to just minutes
- Increased storage performance
- Achieved reduction in heat output and power consumption
- Increased backup functionality
What the Department of Defense is Saying
It used to take as long as two weeks to roll out hundreds of VMs for new customer events. With VMstore, it takes only minutes. Additionally, the additional VMs don’t strain the system’s ability to deliver high performance once provisioned. VMstore’s speed in provisioning is a huge strategic advantage.
-Senior Program Manager