Cisco Systems Cloud Services DataStax Health Checkup and Performance Tuning

Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO), commonly known as Cisco, is a global digital communications technology company that develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, software, telecommunications equipment and other high-technology services and products.

Cisco chose DataStax Enterprise Cassandra to store very large distributed data sets for configuration management and subscription renewal Cloud services used by partners and customers. Cassandra’s active-active replication across multiple data centers, its linear scalability, fault-tolerance and zero-downtime upgrades are key reasons why Cisco picked DataStax Cassandra for these always-on Cloud services.

DataStax brought RhinoSource into Cisco to review and thoroughly check the DataStax Enterprise Cassandra and Solr Search clusters to validate cluster health and make recommendations to fix issues and improve performance.

RhinoSource reviewed multiple production DataStax Enterprise Cassandra and Solr deployments, investigated and resolved issues, and recommended tuning parameter changes to improve performance. RhinoSource also made recommendations for Cisco’s regular cluster maintenance and backup/restore procedures.

Finally, RhinoSource provided a benchmarking methodology to determine maximum cluster i/o capacity, made recommendations to upgrade hardware to meet best practices and provided a detailed zero-downtime DataStax Enterprise upgrade procedure.